how is this related to NixOS? Once you upgrade your hyprland version on NixOS (which you’ll have to do eventually, at least for security fixes), you have to worry about the config breaking just the same
yes but the problem is having to spend time to fix it in the first place. On a more stable de/compositor like Plasma or Sway, you won’t have these problems
I mean, the top level comment refers to the title and not things breaking in general where OP complained about needing to troubleshoot right now before being able to be productive. Being able to postpone troubleshooting to when you can afford it is a massive benefit exactly for this reason where you need to get things done now or just want to do something else in the moment. For the same reason my root is on a ZFS pool with 2-way mirrored vdevs and I have (non-zfs) mirrored boot set up as well. No matter which of my drives fails I can take care of it later without any impact on my productivity or loss of data. I never used hyperland but heard of it stability issues ever so vaguely and while choosing different window manager (because that’s what it is to ppl) may have solved this specific issue at the cost of sacrificing preferences the expectation for your system to never break is absurd. Things will always break at some point and it can come from any direction. Being able to hande the breakage gracefully is the key part.
Nobody expects things to never break, but stability is a spectrum and clearly hyprland is less stable than the average. That’s the main conclusion I got from the post at least. And less stability means more time needed to fix. Nothing you can do about that aside from switching to a different DE
@hirihit640 depends what specifically broke OP’s config and whether the same config done declaratively with nix would have kept parity with the changes instead of breaking. I am not a hyprland user and was just being silly. Feel free to tell me what the breaking change was if you know.
@cannedtuna <laughs in nixos>
how is this related to NixOS? Once you upgrade your hyprland version on NixOS (which you’ll have to do eventually, at least for security fixes), you have to worry about the config breaking just the same
You can rollback and take care of it later when you have time spare.
yes but the problem is having to spend time to fix it in the first place. On a more stable de/compositor like Plasma or Sway, you won’t have these problems
I mean, the top level comment refers to the title and not things breaking in general where OP complained about needing to troubleshoot right now before being able to be productive. Being able to postpone troubleshooting to when you can afford it is a massive benefit exactly for this reason where you need to get things done now or just want to do something else in the moment. For the same reason my root is on a ZFS pool with 2-way mirrored vdevs and I have (non-zfs) mirrored boot set up as well. No matter which of my drives fails I can take care of it later without any impact on my productivity or loss of data. I never used hyperland but heard of it stability issues ever so vaguely and while choosing different window manager (because that’s what it is to ppl) may have solved this specific issue at the cost of sacrificing preferences the expectation for your system to never break is absurd. Things will always break at some point and it can come from any direction. Being able to hande the breakage gracefully is the key part.
Nobody expects things to never break, but stability is a spectrum and clearly hyprland is less stable than the average. That’s the main conclusion I got from the post at least. And less stability means more time needed to fix. Nothing you can do about that aside from switching to a different DE
@hirihit640 depends what specifically broke OP’s config and whether the same config done declaratively with nix would have kept parity with the changes instead of breaking. I am not a hyprland user and was just being silly. Feel free to tell me what the breaking change was if you know.
I believe they are talking about this: https://dev.to/cypheroxide/why-i-left-hyprland-52fd
Lol just upgraded to 26.05 today, surprisingly smooth! This time…
I had to fix 3 errors in Hyprland and a warning in Foot after updating to 26.05 yesterday. I think there was more, but at least it works now.