Just finished my basic niri install on NixOS. Seriously loving it. Had been wanting to ditch Hyprland for a while, but kept hitting walls with tutorials and blogs trying to convince me to use flakes and home manager. Finally last night I sat down and completely rewrote my config to just be simple default config style and got niri working. Feels like the window manager experience I’ve been dreaming of my whole life.
What issues were you having with hyperland? I’ve been running awesomewm for about a decade and I know my days on x11 are numbered. Hyperland was going to be my next trial.
I don’t like the dev. If you want more details I can maybe go find sources, but yeah…
I no longer want to support the software.
And I was too lazy to go edit my config to suppress the donation request popup, so completely refactoring my system was the obvious, lower effort, answer 🤣
Mazel tov. The next step down the rabbit hole is to get a tiling window manager like i3.
I already have Hyprland installed
Oof
Cosmic by popOS is pretty slick.
I haven’t switched to it full time, still happy with KDE… but niri is really nice too
Just finished my basic niri install on NixOS. Seriously loving it. Had been wanting to ditch Hyprland for a while, but kept hitting walls with tutorials and blogs trying to convince me to use flakes and home manager. Finally last night I sat down and completely rewrote my config to just be simple default config style and got niri working. Feels like the window manager experience I’ve been dreaming of my whole life.
What issues were you having with hyperland? I’ve been running awesomewm for about a decade and I know my days on x11 are numbered. Hyperland was going to be my next trial.
I don’t like the dev. If you want more details I can maybe go find sources, but yeah… I no longer want to support the software.
And I was too lazy to go edit my config to suppress the donation request popup, so completely refactoring my system was the obvious, lower effort, answer 🤣
Not the same person, but the Hyprland developer is… controversial, so that could be the reason.
I’m getting ready to do the same thing - just need a couple hours of extra time to take the plunge!