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Personally I don't need fancy. I need stability. If it ain't broken, don't fix it, and I haven't experienced issues with Xorg... But then again, I ditched Ubuntu in 2012 because they switched to that awful search bar launcher doohickey, so I might be a dinosaur in this regard.
Tried using Wayland recently, but alas, my Nvidia GPU holds me back once again.
I just wish Wayland weren't so weird about screensavers. It's it so much to ask to be able to lock my account when I have a screensaver activated?*
*This is what I'm told is the issue when it's brought up on KDE, i really don't have the wherewithal to actually dig into it. Could be talking out of my ass on this. Hope I am at least.
While hyprland is really nice, it is made by a transphobe and a large part of the community is also. Switch to something else there are a lot of good alternatives. Kind of a protest against him.
Using hyprland in no way benefits the developer to be clear, I would just not donate, beyond that it really doesn't matter
I disagree. Open source thrives on attention. Install count is like their cocaine.
Install count isn't necessarily reported, and all forms of reporting that I know of on linux are opt-in
Popularity give them followers, followers give them money
Popularity has nothing to do with install count, and nearly every distro does opt-in to show what you're running.
yeah if its a good program you can use it, even if it's made by horrible people
one example is templeos. everyone likes it, even if the guy who made it was an asshole
though hyprland is different since you can donate, but like you said, you can just not donate to them!
also nice name and pfp
TempleOS is a marvel in many ways, but it's not particularly useful to any normal person. I wouldn't even say that Terry Davis was an asshole, because it feels wrong to hold a paranoid schizophrenic responsible for his manic episodes.
Pretty sure the lead lemmy dev has said some transphobic things as well. They're a major tankie at least.
Thanks for the heads up, but I'm browsing lemmy on a device that is produced at least in part by slave labor somewhere along the logistics chain. At some point I think you just have to disengage from developer drama.
Is there like a word that stands for, "I can't be perfect so I gave up trying to be better"?
I misread this as "made me a transphobe"
the animations man... they really just made me hate those people
I just wish the lead person wasn't you know... Only reason I'm on KDE.
Why not Sway?
just don't vibe with it tbh. Can't explain in an objective way why though.
I absolutely love sway. It's everything I need, and nothing I don't. Just works for me
Wayland is pretty darn great nowadays, hell I'm running KDE and got HDR on my desktop; haven't had any odd goings on since 2023 (though nvidia is still meh)
Same. Intel ran it great, but Nvidia is still pretty bad about running Wayland.
When the Steam Deck dropped I got an AMD GPU and it's close.to Intel levels of seamless. That's when I knew that Wayland is more than ready, Nvidia just still is not.
Works great... until you realize your GPU isn't liked by Wayland when you have more than one monitor lol. Then Wayland is uninstalled and you go back to Xorg or XFCE.
It's weird, had this issue with multiple monitors where wayland is either a glitchy refresh rate mess or just doesn't recognize at all. Nvidia, amd, discrete or dedicated, native driver or oem driver: they're all finicky under wayland when multiple monitors are used.