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I wonder if I will stay on sway after cosmic releases
I desperately want a smithay based hyprland clone... hyprland is just so unbelievably good, shame about the dev.
What makes hyprland so good? It just seems like another WM to me, but maybe I don't get the interesting parts of it.
The developer is just kind of insane. They reimplemented wlroots from scratch all on their own, a feat that cannot be understated, and the reason they did that is because of how massively they were outpacing wlroots development in terms of features.
just some things:
If the feature exists, hyprland has it, almost guaranteed, they are not minimalists, which I appreciate right now while wayland is still getting everything sorted out. It's also the only compositor i've used that mostly works with a certain dumb app i uses clipboard.
And just check out the rate of changes:
https://github.com/hyprwm/Hyprland/pulse/monthly
vaxry is crazy.
Not sure I could stop using a tiling window manager now
Cosmic supposedly does tiling pretty well. Haven't tried it yet, but it might be the one new thing I'll try since going all in on i3 / sway a long time ago...