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Best distro for Hyprland? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by theshatterstone54@feddit.uk to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So I've been using Linux for about a year and a half, have been using Window managers since a few wweks in, have been using Wayland for the last 3 months or so, and have been using Hyprland for about a month. I love it and I want to stick with it in the long term, but I need a distro that supports it.

My essential needs are:

Hyprland NWG-Look (for gtk themes) CMUS Thunar Ristretto bemenu j4-dmenu-desktop (can build from source) Vivaldi (can use deb/rpm/extra repo)

My main issue stems from the fact that:

I want Stability. As such, Arch (and derivatives) are out of the question.

I don't like immutability. As such, NixOS is out of the question.

I'm concerned about the future of Fedora. It's where I'm at right now, yet the telemetry proposal, if accepted, would mean I need to switch.

If you have any other distros that fit my criteria, please leave them below. I know void can take care of all of these, except Hyprland itself and while River is available (and River is amazing) I would prefer to run Hyprland instead.

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[–] pixelprimer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean if you want stability, Debian 12

[–] mhz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Stability with a compositor in it's beta stages not a good combo. You want the latest packages that fix bugs and add features in this case.

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It doesn't have the packages I need.

[–] pixelprimer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use Nix?

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I'm considering it, even though I'd prefer to avoid using Nix for things like that.