From the blog post:
Hello everyone!
As it’s been not much of a secret anymore, Hyprperks has been a few months in the making, and now it’s all come together.
Hyprperks is now open to purchase to everyone!
If you want to support the development for 5€ + tax a month, and also get a few goodies from us, please check out the pricing page
You will get:
- Member-only forum access, with dev Q&A, support from me, and more
- Premium desktop experience, which is a set of preconfigured dotfiles with a one-click install and update
- And of course, support the continued development.
If you don’t have a Hyprland Account yet, consider making one! It’s free, and gives you access to our public forums, where you can find answers, ask questions, and interact with the community.
Also, thank you for all the support, guys. You are awesome!
Cheers, vax.
Is this an ad? I think this is an ad. It sure looks like an ad.
… Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded? Why doesn’t someone just fork it and set the defaults to match the dotfile? And if it isn’t better, how arrogant do you have to be to think your theme and setup is worth a monthly sub?
Edit: Looking at the actual page, it seems that buying the sub doesn’t give you the same benefits as donating €5 or vice versa. For some reason.
Wait, so does the dotfile thing mean the out of the box experience will be degraded?
It seems they’re not changing the default configs, but instead adding an additional config that’s actually usable straight from the box. example video
Isn’t this guy a right-wing nut/borderline fascist?
Yes, but don’t mention it to the people that only care about their eye candy because they get very mad when you do that.
Edit: as predicted, the chuds are assmad.
And OP gets very mad when you call out this premium dotfile subscription bs, and proceeds to delete threads.
What’s there to call out about it?
You don’t see anything wrong with putting tools to make it more accessible for new users and nontechnical people behind a subscription?
Yea it’s not like there’s proof of any of that other than old edgy discord messages of a teenager. blahaj user for sure was very normal in their teen years xD.
He was banned from Free desktop two years ago for the transphobia in his discord. It wasnt some decade old messages from when he was a kid.
You are just lying now. He made no transphobic statements. It was a mod that nicknamed a trans troll “who/cares”, who was already removed by then. He was banned for not complying with free desktop’s coc. Also awesome how much Free Desktop is contributing now after they remove their only active contributor xD. Also it was an year ago not two. The incident they were investigating was then two years old. Here is the Drew’s blog for proper info.
I did not say he said something transphobic, reread my message. I said he was banned for the transphobia in his discord, the community space that he runs and is responsible for, especially in the case of actions by other mods.
My bad on the date, but I really dont think it being 3 years ago makes a big difference. He was still an adult at the time.
Besides that event, hes just an asshole. This is obvious from the email exchange and from his blog posts.
Reading that email exchange alone, he’s clearly a right-wing nut at least. This needs to be called out at every mention of him, especially when he begs for money.
Thanks for confirming.
Removed by mod
Cool! Hope it works out.
To people who downvote: Life isn’t free.
How much did you donate to open source projects you use so far? you know life isn’t free
yeah, development gotta happen somehow
It’s an interesting topic me and my friends have discussed for a long time. On one hand, putting ease of use and user experience behind a paywall is terrible but on the other developers deserve compensation. Not everyone can donate and others doesn’t even figure that it’s an option.
Pangolin I think does it very kindly by having a button on the lower left of the interface that you can click on and then also dismiss to hide that button for a week which I find a good common ground. But at the same time I also think it’s hard to justify hate towards projects that lock things behind a paywall.
Of course if you lock security features like OIDC/LDAP like some do or self-hosting to “Local Infrastructure” it’s pure BS. I think there’s a lot of nuance to what should and shouldn’t be done in the matter but as long as it’s still open source it’s good in my book. Like self hosting Bitwarden gives you access to the paid features or you can pay them the small fee to not self host it and get some extra QoL features.
People do in the end have to juggle software maintenance, community maintenance, organizing issues, planning features and implementations, keeping wiki and docs up to date, etc. On top of, I’m assuming in most cases, having to do a regular job too. I know for a fact I wouldn’t be able to do that at all so if they can get some motivation through either code contribution or monetarily it would potentially ease up things.
