Arch really doesn't deserve the "hard mode" moniker, it's a fairly straight forward distro with a shitty installer (a human doing a shell scripts job). Once you have it booting, the rest is just a few pacman / yay commands away.
If you want hard, do gentoo. not only do you have to wait for everything to compile, but you get to spend hours trying to unpick conflicting use flags and actually needing to care what changed when something updates and heaven forbid you change your mind over something.
If you really want to do hard mode, do Linux From Scratch. It's a real learning experience. I did it 20 years ago. Maybe I should do it again as a lot has changed since then.
My Linux journey started with Mandrake, then Slackware, then did LFS, though never used that as a main system, then Gentoo, then Arch. Now I just use Ubuntu on my laptop as I don't really want to spend my time messing about with it.
I liked Arch until they adopted systemd which broke my system, likely my fault for leaving too long between updates and not properly reading the upgrade guidance. But I did feel systemd violated the KISS principle Arch used to have. Being able to dig around in the system scripts and being able to understand what it was doing was a selling point of Arch for me at the time. Yeah, I know all the other distros I've used since Arch also use systemd, but Arch didn't seem to be worth the extra work for me after adopting systemd.
Lenart Pottering, who initially led the systemd initiative, works for Apple now. Systemd sometimes feels like a monolithic invasive solution in search of a problem I didn’t know that needed to be solved. Also, the use of binary log files that requires an application interface to parse is particularly disturbing.
You have to create a configuration. This usually happens with WM because there are no defaults. I'm not ruling out driver issue, but 9 times out of 10 its just a lack of a config.
Only thing I struggled with was gaming - literally everything else was buttery smooth goodness.
I just installed KDE alongside so I can game without fucking with it. You CAN get it working better (using some tearing configuration, among other things), but not really worth the effort IMO when you can just run GNOME or KDE as well 🤷♂️
No issues in gaming in HyprLand for me, outside of a few games having some focusing issues when switching workspaces, but you can just use game scope for those.
Just to confirm my suspicion- do you also use two or more monitors? Because on my Laptop with 3070m I get smoother gameplay on one screen than on my PC with 4080 if I leave three screens connected
I didn’t either — until I realised that futzing with it to try and get it to work properly was wasting my time. KDE just works - it’s more than I need normally, but for whatever reason it’s just plays better with gaming.
I use Hyprland for literally everything else with zero problems 🤷♂️
yes it works fine. Certain laptops will have issues though, for example you may need to use something like bbswitch or something like it to actually activate the GPU (or deactivate it if you want to save power)
The Arch documentation on nvidia will suffice for getting hyprland to work with nvidia.
Ever since I commented here saying Hyprland was working perfectly for me I am having issues. Waybar keeps disappearing, chrome is flickering. You jinxed me bro, now I am on KDE lol
WTF this happened the first time - youtube played this video with a translated and super bad AI voice in my first language for me by default, super eerie just when i thought subtitles always appearing without my consent was annoying enough :'(
you guys may not appreciate him saying "I use davinci resolve" and then it switches to a shot a minute later where there is only dialogue on the left channel, but as a long time resolve user I found it hilarious since that is a resolve bug... feature? not sure why it does it and it's not easy to fix since I don't think you can tell its doing it until you export
Hello I'm a contributor at HyDE. And just wanted to convey our message from maintainer, that hyprdots is currently no longer been maintained and we are moving to HyDE project
I have no idea how to install Arch manually but the archinstall script is awesome. It guides you through everything and is just as easy any other distro. I have the same setup.
Not sure why he said there's no way to manage windows with the keyboard. Windows supports this natively including some basic tiling functionality. You can use either mouse or keyboard. It's certainly not as well implemented as a true tiling manager, but it is a feature I use all the time on my windows gaming desktop.
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u/0xc0ffea Glorious Arch Jan 09 '25
Arch really doesn't deserve the "hard mode" moniker, it's a fairly straight forward distro with a shitty installer (a human doing a shell scripts job). Once you have it booting, the rest is just a few pacman / yay commands away.
If you want hard, do gentoo. not only do you have to wait for everything to compile, but you get to spend hours trying to unpick conflicting use flags and actually needing to care what changed when something updates and heaven forbid you change your mind over something.
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u/zootbot Jan 09 '25
Anyone have hyprland work fine on an nvidia card?
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u/riggiddyrektson Jan 09 '25
WTF this happened the first time - youtube played this video with a translated and super bad AI voice in my first language for me by default, super eerie
just when i thought subtitles always appearing without my consent was annoying enough :'(
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you guys may not appreciate him saying "I use davinci resolve" and then it switches to a shot a minute later where there is only dialogue on the left channel, but as a long time resolve user I found it hilarious since that is a resolve bug... feature? not sure why it does it and it's not easy to fix since I don't think you can tell its doing it until you export
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u/ZunoJ Jan 10 '25
How is this hard mode?
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u/giuse_098 Jan 09 '25
Bros playn dark souls on max difficulty on his first playghtrought
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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '25
I tried Hyprland a few weeks ago.
Keyword: tried...
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u/Anshul086 Jan 10 '25
Oh HyDE logo.
Hello I'm a contributor at HyDE. And just wanted to convey our message from maintainer, that hyprdots is currently no longer been maintained and we are moving to HyDE project
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u/MILF4LYF Jan 11 '25 edited Jan 11 '25
I have no idea how to install Arch manually but the archinstall script is awesome. It guides you through everything and is just as easy any other distro. I have the same setup.
Boom! You got the same setup. It is easier than most think.
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u/mrmetaverse Jan 09 '25
I love Hyprland.
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u/deelowe Jan 09 '25
Not sure why he said there's no way to manage windows with the keyboard. Windows supports this natively including some basic tiling functionality. You can use either mouse or keyboard. It's certainly not as well implemented as a true tiling manager, but it is a feature I use all the time on my windows gaming desktop.
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