Hyprland Premium: A Linux Tiling Compositor Gets a Paywall
Description
A dark-themed screenshot announcing 'Hyprland Premium', a paid subscription for the popular Linux Wayland tiling compositor. Header text reads: 'Coming soon: Hyprland Premium is a paid subscription unlocking our paid services (like Desktop Experience Premium, coming soon) and allowing you to access the premium-only part of the forums for support straight from the developers, private Q&A, and more.' Below is a pricing card titled 'Hyprland Premium - 5€ + tax / mo' that 'Includes 1 month of Hyprland Premium status: Premium Forum access, Desktop Experience Premium (soon), and future Premium-only services,' with teal checkmarks for 'Supports Development', 'Premium Forums', and 'Premium Desktop Experience (soon)', plus a teal 'Log in to purchase' button. The image is notable/controversial because Hyprland is a flagship open-source ricing project, and putting a subscription tier on it sparked debate about monetizing FOSS
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Finally, a subscription where 'Desktop Experience Premium (soon)' ships on the same roadmap as your dotfiles being finished
The free tier renders every window; Premium renders a maintainer into your forum thread.
I really hope it's a meme and does not correspondence with reality Comment deleted
Well, https://account.hypr.land/pricing Comment deleted
Why Comment deleted
cause it is literally a subscription to dotfiles. pay us money so we give you a preconfigured one click solution. it reminds me of a company with a CEO having STD Comment deleted
It's a way to support a project. There is no difference between this and a FOSS project starting a patreon or something similar Comment deleted
than call it a monthly donation, not a god damn "premium". or as you said - open patreon Comment deleted
It is a monthly donation with access to premium support channels and some opinionated dotfiles. Who cares what they call it? You are like "🤓☝️ you should have called it differently" when you can read what the offering is literally right below the name in the same screenshot. Comment deleted
If you look at it as a product/value proposition of course it's going to suck Comment deleted
Well it doesn't affect normal usage as far as I can tell Comment deleted
"hey, you can support this project thanklessly maintained by some random dude from nebraska ™️ for a forum access and get some nice dotfiles" Comment deleted
It's literally a donation lol Comment deleted
"Unlocking our paid services" Comment deleted
Yeah, premium support channels... Foss project have been doing that for decades Comment deleted
"And future premium only services" Comment deleted
Yeah, so we gonna speculate on that? Notice how it says services and not features or similar. Comment deleted
Services can mean cloud backed shit but ok bro Comment deleted
Oh no it's so bad to support a project you like for some QoL and support Comment deleted
hyprland owners are kinda pieces of shit IIRC Comment deleted
It's beyond the point Comment deleted
Live service desktop environment Comment deleted
Yeah custom dotfiles and support Comment deleted
We will see Comment deleted
https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/1lh3h6f/about_hyprland_premium/ Comment deleted
It's not even mandatory or shit Comment deleted
You guys cry for too much looool Comment deleted
Yuzu had paid-only builds and nobody really cared that much Comment deleted
that explains why Yuzu was taken down then Comment deleted
That's one point of many yeah Comment deleted
That looks way worse to me than a support channel lol Comment deleted
We already saw Comment deleted
«A general catch-all clause if any premium services come out in the future, they will most likely just be a part of the premium subscription. This might be dotfile sync, or other ideas. We don't know yet» Comment deleted
Hyprland is not going closed source It says that in the first sentence on the page. No paid features, beta branches, etc. We continue development as always. Comment deleted
reading to the last sentence is hard, i understand Comment deleted
Who does use hyprland in big 26 anyway?🥱 Comment deleted
alot of people deadass do Comment deleted
What's wrong with it? Except the maintainer Comment deleted
breaking changes are always expected with each update and there's very poor optimization (as i've heard from those who have inspected the codebase) Comment deleted
Is this poor optimisation in the room with us right now? Ive been running arch+hyprland on my 2012 MacBook air and it works great on a 14 year old laptop. My point is, if you have to go to the source code to find the "bad" optimization and you don't see it in the product then maybe it's not so bad after all Comment deleted
memory leaks are rather noticable Comment deleted
nah Comment deleted
well. if you are using the program long enough. Comment deleted
a compositor, naturally, is a long-running program Comment deleted
but memory leaks don't usually affect the behavior of the system, as they are swapped out and never brought back. So they only cause problems when you run out of swap space Comment deleted
Or there's Skype that would use more the longer it was open and would keep using that amount no matter how many times you opened Comment deleted
still wouldn't matter that's just how leaks go Comment deleted
Its just seems like a way to monetize which is fair Comment deleted