Wonder if I will stay on cinnamon(not in linux mint) after cosmic comes out in a stable phase
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One thing that I love about Cosmic is that it is made in Rust and is licensed under GPL. This is contrast to the replacement of the coreutils with new, Rust made, which are unfortunately licensed under MIT. Ubuntu rushed to adopt them. One more case of foul play by them after making the server side of snap proprietary.
I'm not saying you're entirely wrong, but holy crap does that ever come off as a whiny and entitled sentiment.
This is great but it would have to be pretty terrific to get me to replace Plasma.
For me it's pretty likely to replace it, at least on my laptop. Don't get me wrong, I love Plasma, but per-screen workspaces and native window tiling are two features I never knew how much I needed before I tried out Hyprland some months back, especially on a single screen. While I'll definitely miss the desktop panels and extensive settings menu, I'll give those up for the other features without much of a second thought.
It's shaping up to be pretty good at least. It's pretty good for being in alpha state still.
The main thing it needs to beat for me is Kwin's excellent Wayland support. Everything just works.
The per-screen workspaces are appealing though.
Coming together nicely!
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:
- a full proper animation stack for eyecandy
- single window capture (sway still doesn't have this)
- keypress forwarding to specific windows (like xdotool)
- global hotkey support
- insanely good documentation: https://wiki.hyprland.org/
- color management and HDR (sway is just now getting this)
- proper permission management for screencopy (coming in the newest version, first compositor to implement)
- a full plugin system for extra things you want to do
- a proper app not responding dialog
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...