I asked where I work and many recommended hyprland. After giving it a try I saw it was actually very good.
What do you like about sway and what advantages did you hope that hyprland had over sway for you to be compelled to move to it?
I asked where I work and many recommended hyprland. After giving it a try I saw it was actually very good.
What do you like about sway and what advantages did you hope that hyprland had over sway for you to be compelled to move to it?
Sway is just i3 for Wayland, which in turn means you have multiple workspaces (which are also potentially mapped to multiple monitors). You assign workspace a label (number, or text, or emoji), and you may also bind some application to always open on that workspace. Or you just get a habit of putting specific applications to only specific workspaces. Your entire navigation then sits in your muscle memory - finger on the mod key (win or alt or ctrl - whatever), another finger on the digits row for the workspace index - and you're there.
It's a tiling WM, so you don't spend time arranging windows - they already take the full desktop real estate evenly split between them, and you can also adjust size of each window separately. Again, this sits in your muscle memory.
Point is - no mouse is needed to navigate through workspaces and windows.
You may read my blog post about setting sway up (on NixOS) here:
https://drakerossman.com/blog/wayland-on-nixos-confusion-con...
Also check the "nix" tag at blog.
However, it also seems rather unstable. Over the past several months I've been using it, it had a few separate bugs that led to crashes. I haven't really used Sway, so I can't really comment on that, but the X11 WMs (i3 and bspwm) are both quite stable and I honestly can't recall them crashing.