Hyprland tiling Wayland compositor has been accepted into Debian and is now part of its unstable repositories.

Hyprland is a relatively new name among tiling compositor offerings, but thanks to its impressive features, it is quickly becoming a popular choice among Linux users. If you’re not familiar with it, here’s a brief introduction.

It is a highly customizable, dynamic, lightning-fast tiling Wayland compositor designed to provide a powerful and flexible environment for managing windows and workspaces.

It is also built with performance in mind, resulting in smooth operations, very good performance, and, last but not least, visual appeal to users.

All of these qualities, combined with its avalanche of popularity, have resulted in a well-received message on the Debian developer list, announcing that precompiled Hyprland packages are now added and available to the distribution’s unstable repositories.

Furthermore, the acceptance of Hyprland in Debian can be compared to a wide-open door to a large part of the Linux ecosystem. Being one of the foundations on which today’s Linux world is built, Debian has always been a crucial factor in promoting free software.

Adopting a given one in its repositories means it will become available to millions of users, considering the huge amount of Debian derivatives that use it as their base. It is enough to mention Ubuntu, for example.

  • Claire
    16·
    1 month ago

    It’s really not difficult be a decent person, and if you do make a mistake, a genuine apology is usually all you need to make things right.

    People aren’t offended because Vaxry made a mistake, it’s because he doesn’t admit and apologize for his mistakes. Instead he goes out of his way to justify his behavior, the discord mod’s, and the general transphobic culture in his server.

    I’m 100% certain that if Vaxry just said something like “yeah I’m sorry about what happened, we won’t tolerate transphobia in our discord server from now on” (and actively enforced that) after Drew dropped his blog post, he wouldn’t be banned from freedesktop and we wouldn’t be having this discussion.

    • refalo@programming.dev
      6·
      1 month ago

      The problem is “decent” is subjective and not everyone agrees on what that means exactly. And you simply can’t reason with some people. To that end I would say it can actually be extremely difficult or impossible to get some people to conform to your own idea of what’s decent.

      Some people want to “keep politics out of things” (or whatever you prefer to define their actions/inactions as) without realizing that it’s impossible. For example someone might not even want to discuss what is or isn’t transphobia, or whether or not that should be allowed, because that itself is political to them, but NOT handling it (or deferring to moderators) might not be seen as political to them, even if others disagree. IMO nobody is “right” or “wrong”, they just have a difference in opinion.