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by jegp 357 days ago
Great. If they can make some money out of this, why not?

I wonder what happens if they lock down some features as premium-only. The competition is tight in this space and there are tons of alternatives to Hyprland, like Sway, River, etc. Monetizing open-source code sounds like a dangerous path...

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Niri is in the exact same style of smoothly animated tiled columns sliding around, and it's much more pleasant as a community/project. And if you care, it's in Rust not C++.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

There's not a lot of competition yet.

Sway is good, but lots of fantastic WMs with great UIs are still stuck in X. Needing a massive re-write doesn't help.

My personal favorites (XMonad, StumpWM, and EXWM) have all tried but failed to get ported to Wayland.

Tiling window managers on Wayland still are pretty early sadly.
I've been using Niri for a solid year, it's been great.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

Yeah I'm in the element chat of that. They are still pretty early.