Took me a bit to get used to it (history: awesomewm for years -> hyprland for the last year and bit) but I have been using it for about a month and I dont think I would swap away from a scrolling wm now. Ironically it was hyprland adding scrolling that made me commit to trying Niri, if its good enough to copy, might as well try the real thing?

The design principles, particularly "Opening a new window should not affect the sizes of any existing windows" actually makes a big difference day to day and I now love spawning new browser windows instead of getting huge task lists. Same with teminals. I can keep my tmux "for work" and throw up and away temporary terms.

Also I have found fullscreen games to be a bit less wonky because they sort of stay full screen when you scroll out, where as hyprland I sometimes had to swap workspace when adjusting fullscreen would make them shit the bed.

Some people say it performs better (or "lighter") than hyprland but I can't quite say whether thats true. I did think maybe but it might be a placebo.

Some paper cuts, have not checked the new release but I know it didn't have a great way to toggle VRR? I think it was always-on/off vs being able to toggle it when a game is fullscreen? I'd have to check the issue.

I also don't like that double right click while resizing a window would expand it to full-width but I am just realising I think that's adjustable under "gestures", not mouse.

Also something about the config felt more understandable to keymap. Not that hyprland is "complex" but I guess it felt easier to work out how I wanted niri to behave?

Generally, big thumbs up. Everyone who's interested should give it a look.