Hyprland is a relatively new name among tiling compositor offerings, but thanks to its impressive features, it is quickly becoming a popular choice among Linux users. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s a brief introduction.
It is a highly customizable, dynamic, lightning-fast tiling Wayland compositor designed to provide a powerful and flexible environment for managing windows and workspaces.
It is also built with performance in mind, resulting in smooth operations, very good performance, and, last but not least, visual appeal to users.
All of these qualities, combined with its avalanche of popularity, have resulted in a well-received message on the Debian developer list, announcing that precompiled Hyprland packages are now added and available to the distribution’s unstable repositories.
Furthermore, the acceptance of Hyprland in Debian can be compared to a wide-open door to a large part of the Linux ecosystem. Being one of the foundations on which today’s Linux world is built, Debian has always been a crucial factor in promoting free software.
Adopting a given one in its repositories means it will become available to millions of users, considering the huge amount of Debian derivatives that use it as their base. It is enough to mention Ubuntu, for example.
The one run by what’s called the most toxic community in current Linux?
Calling it a storyline makes it seem like you already don’t believe it.
https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html
TL;DR (there should be an open source drama summarising website!):
- Hazing someone in your discord because they have pronouns in their bio
- Speaking pretty bluntly against queer people and minorities at large
- “at 15 he doesnt even know what he will be studying at uni and he already wanna go get AIDS?”
- “I think this server’s motto should be ‘love guns, hate damn minorities’”
The lead dev thought it was no big deal that the moderators of his official discord server were going out of their way to harass trans people. Then when someone said “hey this isn’t okay” he was like “why am I to blame I didn’t do it”
He didn’t just wash off his hands. When asked in an interview about a moderator who edited a trans user’s profile to intentionally misgendering them (yup, even that’s not off limits for their mods), he justified it saying that ‘It’s not like using the N-word or something’. (For context, the n-word itself was innocuous. It gained notoriety due to its misuse by bigots like this).
There are several such examples - repeatedly even after being called out. I don’t belong to any diversity groups. But I don’t care if they make the world’s best operating system. I will stay well away from it if only to avoid any interaction with such a group. They’re a bit too happy about harassing people (not just transgenders either).
The main dev, Vaxry, is a transphobic fascist shithead. To such an extent that he’s been banned from contributing to freedesktop.
He’s also an immense ass when commenting on issues on his own repos.
Hyprland itself is decent, though breaking changes happen frequently. And the plugin manager is a complete mess.
I got so sick of dealing with breaking changes, and seeing his stupid fucking aryan anime avatar constantly reminded me of how shit of a person Vaxry is, that I just said “fuck it” and switched over to Plasma 6, and haven’t really looked back.
Yeah. Like… I can’t think hyprland offers enough to make it worth promoting. Its like… Yeah Drake put out some tracks than when they show up in my feed I like until I realize its that massive piece of shit. You can’t really have death of the author when the author gains more audience through hype of their output. I’d recommend people interested in hyprland look at river, sway, or dwl instead
The site has blocked entire IP range of my country I wonder why? Hmm
Why would you ever package Hyprland on Debian that seems extremely stupid. Hyprland is not very stable and is constantly requiring updates. This is going to result in a ton of outdated bug reports.
The good thing with packages on Debian is, they have to create it once in a lifetime.
