Evan Leibovitch via Talk wrote on 2025-08-21 18:08:

The latest curiosity that seems to be attracting attention is something called Hyprland. This is a window manager/compositor that's Wayland-only but apparently extremely resource-light and customizable.

I seem to recall the customizability is a bit tricky though. Aren't there many (many!) config files for various features? That might be preferable to one large file, I just seem to recall watching a video (linked here?) of someone installing and configuring it. Was challenging.

It's also increasingly showing up in Linux forums that I watch and has the now-typical small but very noisy following who say it's the Next Big Thing in open source.

It does seem very popular.

Having said that, Hyprland is not a full replacement for GNOME or KDE; no panels, utilities, widgets, GUI settings app. It needs these from other sources which could well come from the KDE or GNOME suites. But does that defeat the purpose?

For me, it does. I want, even need, my panels. But I can see the attraction of something like a screen full of tiled windows. I do appreciate sometimes that KDE lets me tile windows with a key combo.

Is this the first software that finally lets Wayland shine? Or is it an open source Labubu, the hottest thing around but forgotten next year?

I think it's here to stay. IceWM and a bunch of other minimalist (featureless) tools have enough fans to keep plodding along decades after they were relevant. (That's, like, my opinion, man.) It'd make a nice presentation if anyone uses Hyprland (or some other tiling tools). Show us why panels aren't a necessity and why any marginal(?) increase in app switching is worth sacrificing what some of us think of as essential (panels, etc.). I'll tune in with curiosity and an open mind.