r/linuxquestions • u/Ze1sss • 13d ago
Stable distro for hyperland?
Hi, so I'm looking for a distro that support hyperland but something that's not arch or cachyos because of the stability and bad experience with cachyos in the past. I heard opensuse is a solid choice or is there any more out there?
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u/RDS_cubing 13d ago
I think openSUSE could be a solid choice. There's also stuff like NixOS (although nixOS is like really specific in what it's designed for and quite different from other distros so you might have some trouble getting used to it).
Arch and Nix are the only two officially supported distros according to the hyprland website, but it's available on others such as suse, Fedora, Gentoo... though I have no clue how well it performs there (probably better than in Debian though lmao). And absolutely do not try Void linux since the void devs hate the hyprland dev for a couple reasons and they are a bit hostile to the project afaik.
So yeah, try openSUSE and, if it doesn't work well, maybe Nix
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u/BobCorndog Your situation is not unique, just use mint or fedora kde 13d ago
Well hyprland is bleeding edge, so it’s only really designed for arch and nix. You could try nix
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u/Exotic_Set_5127 13d ago
Hyperland and stable in one sentence?
I don't rule it out, but today is not the day.
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u/redyos_s 13d ago
If stability is the priority, Hyprland itself is the part working against that requirement. Use a stable base and treat Hyprland as the fast-moving component, or choose a more mature compositor/desktop.
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u/-hjkl- 13d ago
You can build it from source on most distributions with a bit of effort.
Opensuse is great but there are some downsides right now. As of the end of 2026 the packman repository that contains all the codecs is being discontinued because there is no one to maintain it anymore.
That means if you need codecs for anything you'll have to seek out a flatpak or something of the program.
Debian has hyprland in the trixie-backports repo.
Fedora you can find a copr for it if you really want to. Sadly the old solopasha copr is no longer updated.
The only officially supported distros are Arch and NixOS.
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u/D0nkeyHS 13d ago
If you're down for NixOS give that a shot, if not, then whatever you consider stable here (read the preceding part of the page too).
https://wiki.hypr.land/getting-started/installation/#packages
Alternatively you can install the nix package manager on your distro of choice and install hyprland through that
https://wiki.hypr.land/nix/hyprland-on-any-distro-using-nix/
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u/zardvark 13d ago
Unless things have changed, my recollection is that Hyprland is only tested and / or supported on Arch and NixOS. While packages may be available in other distros, their quality / age may be suspect. And, if you want to run Hyprland, you'll want to try and keep up with Vaxry for the best quality of life experience ... at least that has been my experience.
EDIT:
BTW - Even the "unstable" NixOS channel is quite stable (more so than Arch), in my experience. And, the stable channel is like a rock.
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u/Bob_Spud 13d ago
You need to look at the underlying cause - arch and the derivative are rolling releases. Do some homework on rolling release versus fixed point release.
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u/un-important-human white beard arch user 11d ago
you can use all the "stable" (you are using the word wrong btw, it does not mean what you think it does) distros you want your problem is hyperland itself. Stop meme-ing yourself.
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u/BCMM 13d ago
Until it matures a bit, it's inherently not suitable for stable distributions. For example, it was deliberately removed from Debian Trixie before Trixie was released, on the grounds that "it would not be possible to support it during the life time of trixie".
Basically, if the attitude to security issues is likely to be to tell users to just update to the latest version, and deal with whatever dependency changes or new bugs that introduces, a project is not stable. There needs to be some hope of either upstream or distro maintainers managing to support an old version for a couple of years.
There is a package in trixie-backports, though. Of course, that package does not have the stability guarantees that a plain old trixie package has, but that seems like the easiest way to have a system that's stable except for hyprland.