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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by willis936 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:08PM (#46460971)
hyprland is a fun spectacle, but takes insane effort to make remotely livable. Also any apparent shortcut (dotfiles) will do nasty damage to your install. Anyone hypr-curious should sandbox in an install they don't mind wiping.
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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by philajan on Thursday January 01, 2026 @10:45PM (#46461190)
I’m really curious about your experience, what distro you used hyprland on, what dotfiles did damage to your install etc.

I just installed hyprland yesterday and outside of having to switch back to i3 once to install what they had set for a terminal in their default config(kitty), I haven’t had to leave again.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by throw2312321 on Friday January 02, 2026 @01:46AM (#46462096)
What does hyprland offer over i3?
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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by philajan on Friday January 02, 2026 @10:37AM (#46465779)
From my experience, nice decorations. I haven't gone further than getting a top bar set up and getting my normal shortcuts setup.

I'm sure I'm not getting everything everything I could out of it.

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Re:Linux is good now; to feel like you actually own your PC,... by willis936 on Friday January 02, 2026 @04:48AM (#46463177)
Asahi and hyde. "Nasty damage" isn't irreparable, but it would be significant effort to enumerate every small touch that affects defaults from other DEs and restore them. There is no "restore all touched configs to default" afaik. Since my asahi install was a lightly used toy anyway I just reinstalled. My next attempt will be with a VM that I make image backups of.
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