well, i have used hyprland and sway in the past for a few weeks, i guess.

but well, with DHH’s omarchy and pewdiepie’s hyprland setup,
among with many other rices,
let’s say it got me intrigued.

to be honest, i do not care much about the rest,
but I remember seeing a hyprland rice with custom window decorations,
and that was actually wonderful.
i have tried to create a window decoration for KDE plasma,
but it turned out to be quite inflexible.

and quickshell seems pretty interesting,
even though i could use it with KDE plasma, if i wanted to.

but yeah.
i thought about giving it a try.

by the way, the title is a based on a lie -
i messed around with hyprland for like 20 minutes or so.

at first, it was okay.
the config file is pretty straightforward.
alt + enter opens konsole, (konsole is pretty good)
alt + w opens dolphin,
alt + q closes the active window.
yeah, pretty easy.

i swap my control and capslock keys,
and being able to configure it within the hyprland config was pretty nice.
if it were a typical xorg window manager, i’d have to do something else.
well, one less config file to store.

i didn’t immediately dive into the bling parts.
i thought it can wait for later.
plus, i don’t feel like spending too much time customizing everything, so.

but then i noticed that my laptop monitor was on.
(i have an external monitor plugged in.)
so i disabled the laptop screen in the config, and yeah, good.
i never expected it to work, but i thought,
well, maybe the hyprland guys programmed it so that
if i disconnect the HDMI, the laptop would be back on.
or there would be some config that would enable it.
and, i was wrong, to nobody’s surprise.

well, i thought some simple configuration would exist,
and i looked it up.
i saw a bunch of hacks:
bash scripts, hyprctl, IPC stuff, systemd services,
and there was something called kanshi or something.
and i was like, nah, man…

enter flashbacks.
bspwm/herbstluftwm config,
endless editing of rofi configs,
polybar breaking the whole Xorg session everytime it updates,
writing runit services by hand.
ah no.
i really, really don’t wanna go there.

hyprland’s ram usage was like 1.2 gigs or something.
at least in my pc.
but if i were to add a panel, notification system,
scripts and all that,
i would end up with ram usage of KDE plasma,
which is like 1.6 gigs at idle.
and KDE plasma does so much more.
so it’s not worth an effort anyway.

one could say KDE plasma made me lazy?,
but i’d say KDE is as comfy as home.