I’ve been on the fence since I’ve been trying Hyprland. What I want out of a window manager / DE is lots of window customization settings (borders, animations, etc.), & having configuration inside one file or one directory with hot-reloading (I’m switching from KDE since its config files all over the place). Hyprland is very popular among WM users with a large ecosystem, though I prefer stacking rather than tiling. I can make it work with some window rules, and shell scripts using hyprctl & jq.
I’m wondering how many little things I will need to fix / figure out. For instance, when I open the firefox bookmarks library with CTRL SHIFT O. When that window is open but not focused, and not on top, if I press CTRL SHIFT O again on a DE it comes back to the top, but not on Hyprland. I could probably find a fix for that?
I might be answering my own question but I really want to hear thoughts.
Hyprland is modern, flexible and widely used. I’m glad you can get it to work the way you want it to, it’s probably a better experience than using a more niche window manager built for your usecase.
In my experience, every window manager will give you
That’s why, even though I love tiling window managers, I ended up reverting from sway to a full Desktop Environment for my work laptop.
Give it a try and see how far you get. If I were to give WMs a try again, I would go with Hyprland for sure.