#161

Hyprland has been getting a ton of attention as of late so I thought why don't we bring the lead developer Vaxry onto the show and see how we got here and what's planned for the future
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[@vaxryy]

Thanks for having me! :) was great talking to ya

[@mathisbuilder]

@vaxry

[@generallyunimportant]

where do you smell

[@bleack8701]

Very cute pic for the video

[@handlesaretoopersonal]

I saw that someone wrote a hit piece about you, so now I'm a fan of hyprland congratulations on being the andrew tate of the Linux sphere

[@kuroenekodemon]

I started using hyprland recently and I saw this video ignore the haters you're an amazing and talented developer and I love using hyprland even on an RTX 3050 mobile with DRM modeset set to 1 in the bootloader. Keep up the good work!

[@FarLine99]

Awesome podcast. Thank you, vaxry. Thanks Brodie. Awesome people. Beatiful hyprland. Love❤

[@lua-nya]

I was there at the peak of compiz fusion. I miss my cube. With 3D gears inside.

[@GambuSaur]

Illusion: "I hope that KDE move to wlroots which would be a good thing because more standardization and more stable wlroots. It would be pretty cool". Reality one year later: detaching wlroots completely from hyprland. Life is change, change is life.

[@koye4427]

Double borders can be good for contrast on noisy wallpapers ✨

[@TechOverTea]

That's fair

[@discomallard69]

Brodie is a huge fan of fairness, that's why they call him Brodie the fair. That and his well groomed beard.

[@RealJonzuk]

one issue i have is you cant use Meta + V to make a floating window in the secret workspace you enter with Meta + S but you can make it floating before putting into the secret workspace and it will move around idk if im just stupid and using an old version but idk haha im on nixos stable

[@KayBraim-s4y]

Gillian Views

[@the-random1]

Most based dev

[@minecraftpufferfish9066]

even more true today

[@Pieterv24]

to me, this guy is the epitome of "fuck it, I'll do it myself"

[@WERTBON]

Ah, so basically everybody is currently pissing themselves because Vaxry isn't super boring. Perfect drama, I love the Linux community.

[@Heinrich-si3rx]

This isn’t ‘super boring’, this is a kid who thinks that having a Linus Torvalds attitude is ‘cool’. The difference is Torvalds is a dick to people that are stupid and don’t follow instructions. Vaxry is a dick to literally everyone unless he can get KZbin views.

[@alarii2582]

@@Heinrich-si3rx But Vaxry's not a youtuber?

[@double0028]

@@alarii2582 the irony is that he is www.youtube.com/@vaxryy

[@TechStuff885]

​@@alarii2582he is

[@lejee_]

Vaxry‘s explanations and takes are golden! Would watch a devlog. Learned a lot :) Vaxry, keep up the amazing work

[@dice-uj2sr]

This guy isn't toxic he is BASED

[@MyAmazingUsername]

Correct. Fedora and FDO are the toxic people.

[@ForikiTheRat]

The most sane linux user

[@Heinrich-si3rx]

Fr. ‘Rust is full of blue-haired LGBT-lovers’

[@RenderingUser]

@@Heinrich-si3rx wat

[@jacekpoz2203]

hyprland will overtake gnome on the 14th of April 2026

[@エーカー]

yuppppp 👆👆👆👆👆

[@mathisbuilder]

Holy shit it's piss blob

[@youdontknowme2508]

Can confirm

[@techhelpportal7778]

that is very close to when I turn 18 lol

[@gizzmoguy.]

😂

[@neoney]

hyprland will overtake gnome on the 13th of April 2026

[@cereal4k]

Loved watching this pod. It's been a year since tho. I would love to see him again in another pod. With the recent controversies and Arch, Alpine adding hyprland, it's gonna be an interesting video

[@Camper_Samu]

This episode was so fun, Varxy is too funny

[@yavko]

Thanks for the mention! Also yeah I tried to write hyprplugin-rs, I gave up, its impossible, the ABI is just too different. I got a rust plugin running, but it would crash the compositor lol. I have an idea for creating a multi language plugin loader written in C++, but I wont try that yet, maybe someday I'll write it?

[@monkev1199]

Have you looked into the cxx crate?

[@yavko]

@@monkev1199 Ofc i did, i tried everything dude. Problem with cxx, is some types cannot be owned, especially CxxString, you can only own a reference to it

[@tranthien3932]

"There are only 2 types of (Linux) people: new Linux users and People who don't like GNOME" Man, this guy is funny

[@excidium_]

lmao'd at the accuracy of his description of wayland PRs

[@YourComputer]

*Migrates to Linux for choice and freedom.* Also: *Installs window manager/compositor with highly-opinionated window placement.*

[@sher1x165]

Please promote Hyprland, all people should know about this wonderful compositor!

[@x7scriptzzz172]

immediately laughed out loud when Vaxry mentioned he started using linux with an Nvidia graphics card and wanted to start on Endeavour..... and here i am running Endeavour on an Nvidia gt 630, while also running hyprand....... lol

[@mathisbuilder]

hyprland will overtake gnome on the 15th of April 2026

[@mitchmarq428]

Fully support the monthly hyprland reviews.

[@johanngambolputty5351]

Wow, its weird to think that this madlad has been using linux for shorter than me, respect.

[@flarebear5346]

It's so weird seeing guy that got me into Minecraft anarchy in a podcast also helping me learn about the wayland stuff. Multitalented king

[@xffeeo]

its so weird to discover this amazing wm was made by the guy, who plays on the same minecraft anarchy servers as you did, and not only that, he had been hacked client developer just like i did

[@xyzbtwballs]

yea it's a small world, still surprised vaxry made hyprland ( i just switched to linux recently) @@xffeeo

[@DonaldFeury]

I use Hyprland btw

[@callmesteve7874]

Thumbs up for the dev of the best WM!

[@robertw9353]

I'm a long time Linux user, coming from Debian with X and Bspwm. Decided to test out Arch with Wayland and Hyprland on my new laptop (Acer) with hybrid GPUs (intel+nvidia), and I'm really surprised how well everything works. No stability issues and excellent application compatbility (I can run all my apps without any issues), also it looks great and perforrms well. Great work @vaxryy !!

[@jdanks]

sus pfp

[@MrBeiragua]

I was pretty close from going to my main laptop and installing Hyprland, but the second half of the interview... Yikes.

[@conan_kudo]

42:30 The reason this happens is that both Chromium and Firefox use the same graphics code (Skia from Chromium). So it's not surprising it behaves the same way.

[@eyssewieringa2084]

I am about to buy a second hand 6700 xt for $250 loll

[@mihaifufezan2216]

that's a steal

[@drasif2503]

Thank you Brodie for this excellent session. As an avid admirer of Hyprland, enjoyed this very much. I want to thank Vaxry for this excellent window manager. He made something so beautiful at such a young age!

[@pastdue7170]

A community you run is a extension of yourself at the end of the day and it is by no means a easy things to do.

[@carnivorebear6582]

What a king

[@Zeioth]

Bro, this has been the most interesting video so far. So much good stuff.

[@kennethalampay9575]

Rewatching it at ⭐ Star (13.2 K )

[@TechOverTea]

Maybe I need to bring him back

[@syvar1886]

@@TechOverTea yes please

[@fmc000]

@@TechOverTea Indeed.

[@FilthyPitDog]

​@@TechOverTeado it 😂

[@DartMitai]

Thank you man, this is the best I've ever tried, you're cool!

[@yavko]

Finally

[@botnet3201]

2000 hours in neptunia. What a chad

[@AnthonyLewis-u1u]

Alisa Hollow

[@iamnickdavis]

Hypr well, lol.

[@CatPerson136]

Let's hope the 9b community doesn't harass you

[@joshua_lee732]

This isn't a Gentoo video.

[@mykytao5028]

No issues on Hyprland for me, happy to see this video and use Hyprland

[@neXIITem]

Vaxry keep doing what you do, I am using KDE right now but Hyperland looks like it could get used to later down the line.

[@Mopigames_]

Hai

[@ultimateperson626]

Yyoooo hyrllannnddd

[@cenunix]

Hyprland will overtake gnome on the 16th of April 2026

[@iamnickdavis]

Everything makes so much more sense now

[@janwhite3877]

1:08:00 so hyperland is under globohomo's boot, shame(

[@chinh4thepro]

when immolo podcast upload!!!

[@TechOverTea]

Soon

[@Bvngee]

Go hyprland!

[@lua-nya]

Firefox context menus are still broken in gamescope by the way.

[@thiagoassisfernandes]

brodie, when you go and give hyprland another shot, give Eww a shot as well

[@randomuser-ks1cd]

when esl person says shieeet you know that they are based

[@FlafyDev]

Vaxry sama!

[@idjdbrvvskambvvv9007]

Mad lads !!!

[@erikreider]

wlroots is at least better documented than pixman 😂

[@bhavyakukkar]

15:23 isn't EWMH a standard?

[@lua-nya]

I now appear to have the names Brodie and Vaxry burnt into my tiny screen.

[@TechOverTea]

Oof

[@lua-nya]

Seems to be mostly gone now. It was kind of a fun scare.

[@generallyunimportant]

froggers duide.

[@Enemyers]

nais crossover 🥸

[@romanstingler435]

REWRITE EVERYTHING IN RUST !!!

[@pyrokamileon]

I never understood it but apparently people who are a bit of a dick are More the kind of person people gravitate toward. I myself have been working on being less of a nice guy 👍🏽

[@RealJonzuk]

I love hyprland it has the best defaults i barely changed anything and its fantastic i just turned off the anime wallpaper and changed like 1 keybind and made an autostart and etc

[@Oswee]

The only Linux issue is The Desktop. Qt, GTK, Gnome, KDE, whatever... Inconsistency, weird quirks and hacks, Fedora this, Arch that, NixOS something else.... For the average kid, grandpa or mom... this is the huge issue. They are expecting just Next, Next, Next, Done... and they don't care about the dealing with all that weird garbage under Linux Desktop ecosystem which appears on surface every single day if they use Linux. They want every single application being consistent and stable. They don't give a f*** about Qt, GTK and all the other FOSS quirks. Until this will be solved... Linux desktop will be something something 3% user base and will not attract serious development teams.

[@backpackvacuum9520]

LGBTQ issues are real. I will gladly admit that many advocates for these issues do not take the right approach and can be annoying, but having a dismissive attitude towards the topic is not the way to make more folks feel welcome in the Linux community. You want more folks to feel welcome because greater diversity makes a group stronger, and greater numbers means more support and potential for improvement. Gender identity doesn't have anything to do with Linux, but that doesn't mean, "fuck you I don't care about your pronouns," it means "oh, you go by those pronouns? Cool, let's get back to the code." I don't say this to call anyone out, but I've grown and changed a lot in the last several years in regards to this topic and I think it's important for the community.

[@benign4823]

Diversity for the most part doesn't make anything better or worse. But there are definitely ways diversity can negatively affect things. Diversity of opinion can break projects since everyone is too busy arguing all the time, and forced diversity for the sake of it pushes out people that have more skill for people perceived differently that contribute less or at all. Same with easily interpretable COC's, easy to push out people that tell truths in a rough way that are just very passionate for people that only say nice things that don't care much about said project.

[@backpackvacuum9520]

@@benign4823 The only way that I can understand how you would believe that is that you have a complete lack of empathy for your fellow humans. You are advocating for excluding others based on their demographics.

[@benign4823]

@@backpackvacuum9520 Now you're just putting words in my mouth. I just said FORCED diversity, diversity for the sake of it is bad, and I even gave examples. If you have something meaningful to say, like a well thought out argument with reasoning, than go ahead. But it seems that you just immediately jumped straight into framing me as a villain and strawmanning, which aren't good signs of someone capable of debating in good faith.

[@backpackvacuum9520]

@@benign4823 You didn't say "forced diversity" you said "diversity" And you said that diversity is at best neutral, and at worst can be a hindrance to a project. If you were trying to say that you encourage diversity, that did not come across to me.

[@benign4823]

@@backpackvacuum9520 I've not said I encouraged it, because again, what I said is literally what I literally said, and I said different things about different types of diversity which you seem to have overlooked, I won't repeat myself. Still waiting for any good faith proper arguments from you btw, maybe you could get to even mentioning what type of diversity you're so supportive of since I mentioned two different types, but at least you switched to nitpicks which is slightly better than being completely on the offensive from the start.

[@mark8200]

Good interview, and true Pronoun having people always ruin it

[@rmoog1019]

Hey, I wanted to ask a question to the interviewer. Is Vaxry real? Is he a person that exist for real as he describes himself, or is he making things up for clicks? Because I've pieced together the backstory of his person from the first 46 minutes of this interview and my bullshit radar is going crazy. Here's a list of facts about Vaxry that aren't consistent with reality, or are extremely unlikely to occur: >he bought a used Radeon 6400 XT for $1000 >when he first started to use Linux, he started using Manjaro and Arch not long after Manjaro failed him >4 months into Linux he moves from KDE to i3, a totally rational and normal thing to do, totally no issues with learning curves and contrasts in ease of use >4 months into Linux he writes his own WM because a well established WM annoys him, instead of complaining about it everywhere like all new Linux converts do >he lives with his parents, which implies he's either a teen or in his early 20s, but his knowledge of Linux, his Hypr project, and everything, implies that he has at least 5 years of experience with Linux, which contradicts him being this young or being this broke to live with parents, a person who has this much Linux experience is definitely earning enough to move away >he's a new guy in town on some Linux forum and everything he says gets a 1000 upvotes, totally not staged when you remember that Linux community is notorious for infighting >some Wayland shill tells him off and is bullied off the platform, wow, did RedHat run out of money on people upvoting him back up or what? this is just unreal, Wayland shills normally always get their way because you can't argue yourself out of Xorg being old as dust and insecure, talking back to a Wayland shill normally gets you banned too >he uses Polish currency to buy the Radeon, which implies he is located in Poland but for some reason his English sounds as if it were native, which yet again, could be likely explained if he wasn't native to Poland, but then again, people whose native language is English are most of the time extremely successfully fended off from moving into Poland by lack of neetbux, lack of copious amounts of child benefits, and lack of grossly exaggerated minimum wages, which makes his origin and the origin of his mastery of English language a complete mystery I don't mean to shoot this guy down, his accomplishments are pretty cool, but these improbabilities and inconsistencies with reality make him come off as either a freak of nature or a mythomaniac. Or both, why not.

[@nottheevil]

I've actually started using Linux from Void in my 18. I've been using DWM back then and actively rewriting it. There is nothing special when you are into IT and doing some system stuff since your 9-10. Also it's totally normal to live with parents in your 20s in this part of Europe, even given the income... I've left my home only because of some personal matter so to speak, despite that I had a job for a year or so back then. We don't actually like mortgage and all shit, so it's OK to live with parents until you have some money to buy a house

[@snowworm4601]

Vaxry is just a really smart guy. You seem a bit jealous.

[@rmoog1019]

​@@snowworm4601 Yes, but in a good way. You see, Vaxry comes off as someone who was born with 20 years of Linux experience under his belt. I can't even name a single person that starts with Manjaro and writes their own window manager 4 months into trying Linux, even though I've been using it since 2007 myself. However, I can name you dozens of people who tried Linux and complained on /g/, complained on IRC, and who ultimately went back with their tail curled back to Microsoft. The remark about living with parents is not as facevalued as it may seem. From my vantage point, moving out of my parents' place was necessary because I was constantly pestered with retarded demands like changing HDMI inputs on the TV, constantly blamed for shitty wifi, and my interests in Linux and hardware were always frowned upon and discriminated because in their mind if the Spar down the road uses Windows then everyone must. Vaxry with his kind of knowledge, could easily find a very good job and immediately BTFO that kind of environment and these kinds of people from his life. That doesn't seem to be the case which could be a testimony to Vaxry's parents being supportive of his interests.

[@4cps777]

Did you even watch the full interview before writing your comment?

[@rmoog1019]

@@4cps777 No, I stopped at 45m because by this time I had too many doubts stirring.

[@mathisbuilder]

@vaxry

[@jswclips8459]

@vaxry