Hypr, Hypr, bring out the Mango
All this Hyprland stuff in which I was also genuinely interested (lua! shiny & new!) has become totally superfluous for me.
About two years ago Hyprland started developing an entire eco-system of applications and tools, all around the windowmanager. You might ask whether the typical WM user wants this. I personally prefer to set up all elements myself, but that's me.
It's cool if you're invested in it right now, but I've changed course. And I'd be pissed off, having to rewrite all my configs.
And addressing the elephant: they have a reputation for an 'edgy' environment and breaking changes. The other side of a BDFL.
So for who is this change then? Who's gonna do all the heavy lifting in converting your old configs into the new lua?
Yes, their wiki is very extensive and very helpful. But it's a lot of work.
Also: right now it looks like Hyprland missed the boat. Do you hear people talking about it, except for this geezer and the usual trope of Tubers? Nope. Actually, it's not broadening Hyprland's reach, it's narrowing it down.
Combo's of Cosmic, Niri, Mango, Dank and Noctalia have taken over the 'wm-market', for beginners and experts alike. Animations, scrolling, multi-display, extensive configs: all available, but not in lua obviously ;-)
So, instead, I grabbed Mango and re-added Noctalia to it and it worked. Yep, on Slackware. Of course I had my configs, at the same time: configuring isn't that complicated. Not without a learning curve, but not a mountain to climb either.
Come back next month when I complain about Mango switching to Haskell.