I want to like Hyprland, but it truly is the embodiment of Jamie Zawinski’s “cascade of attention deficit teenagers”

This is what happens when software is created by too-smart teenagers, that change their mind as fast as they improve at programming, and expect that everyone is spending 12 hours a day configuring their desktop environment while hanging out in ‘ricing’ discords (“what do you mean you have a day job?”)

Worse, if you dare criticize it, the fanboys come out of the woodwork saying you should really just use an LLM to convert to Lua and that you are dumb trying to do it manually. The hubris is untenable.

After 3 or 4 breaking changes over the years, I decided I’d rather use some other desktop environment honestly, until the core team literally grows up. Niri is great, and its author is much more… mature.