Haven't used Hyprland but honestly I'm not a big fan of "bloat" arguments (except for tiny single-feature applications).
Computers get more and more powerful every year, additional options and features are just about always good thing IMO.
I also haven't really used Gnome (KDE and XFCE mostly), but I'm surprised someone would call it bloated. I was under the impression that it was trying to be clean and simple, and an enormous amount of things were relegated to third party addons, like blur and up until recently, accent colors
“Computers get more and more powerful every year” the lower limit doesn’t change. At some point, bloat becomes physically real because it means I can’t run a certain DE setup on a cybedeck designed to be as physically small as possible
Computers get more and more powerful every year, additional options and features are just about always good thing IMO.
That's an excuse to not pursue optimization (has stuff like Call of Duty being 200GB+ somehow not even including a full-campaign; vs tricks of getting Pokemon R/B on a tiny cartridge or DOOM)
Even if they are creating an ecosystem. Most of the software has funtionallities that others don't.
Their cursor theme system is more efficient and makes It easier for anyone to create their own cursor and make sure it looks good even if you moddify how Big It is.
Hyprpaper is just a thing that they created for no reason (because swww is objetively better, with native animated background Support and better transitions between wallpapers).
ipsirc@reddit
As I see it, Hyprland is slowly evolving towards becoming a full-fledged DE. A few more years and it will be more bloated than Gnome.
No_Refrigerator9720@reddit
Bloated with what?
AndrewIsntCool@reddit
Haven't used Hyprland but honestly I'm not a big fan of "bloat" arguments (except for tiny single-feature applications).
Computers get more and more powerful every year, additional options and features are just about always good thing IMO.
I also haven't really used Gnome (KDE and XFCE mostly), but I'm surprised someone would call it bloated. I was under the impression that it was trying to be clean and simple, and an enormous amount of things were relegated to third party addons, like blur and up until recently, accent colors
Suspicious-Limit8115@reddit
“Computers get more and more powerful every year” the lower limit doesn’t change. At some point, bloat becomes physically real because it means I can’t run a certain DE setup on a cybedeck designed to be as physically small as possible
Espionage724-0x21@reddit
That's an excuse to not pursue optimization (has stuff like Call of Duty being 200GB+ somehow not even including a full-campaign; vs tricks of getting Pokemon R/B on a tiny cartridge or DOOM)
Business_Reindeer910@reddit
it's because bloat too often mean has a lot of dependencies or the dependencies are too big, or this or that.. it's meaningless as a term.
Rerum02@reddit
I wouldn't listen to this guy, all he does is complain and make snark comments about everything.
MelioraXI@reddit
How is Hyprland becoming a DE?
Afillatedcarbon@reddit
Yeah, cause non of the hypr ecosystem comes preinstalled
ZunoJ@reddit
You see it wrong lol
Ok-Winner-6589@reddit
Even if they are creating an ecosystem. Most of the software has funtionallities that others don't.
Their cursor theme system is more efficient and makes It easier for anyone to create their own cursor and make sure it looks good even if you moddify how Big It is.
Hyprpaper is just a thing that they created for no reason (because swww is objetively better, with native animated background Support and better transitions between wallpapers).
ComprehensiveHawk5@reddit
I wouldn’t doubt if this is true long-term but there’s nothing in this release suggesting this