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# Hyprland Tiling Compositor
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Hyprland is an elegant and high performance Tiling window compositor for Wayland on Linux.
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Hyprland is a high performance Wayland compositor and tiling window manager. Hyprland is not a full desktop environment (DE) like [KDE Plasma](https://kde.org/) or [Gnome](https://www.gnome.org/).
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Hyprland is not a full desktop environment, unlike KDE or Gnome. Additional tools can be installed to make a complete desktop environment.
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Hyprland is not a full desktop environment, unlike KDE or Gnome. There are distributions that provide a complete Hyprland based desktop environment.
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!!! HINT "Try Hyprland with the NWG Live ISO"
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[NWG Live ISO](https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-iso) provides a simple way to try Hyprland and the set of tools provided by NWG-Shell to give a Desktop Environment experience based on Gnome.
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- Omachy: simple and opinionated distribution from Arch Linux & Hprland, completely keyboard driven and providing a crafted experience.
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- Garuda Linux: hyprlant variant provides a professional and easy to manage operating system, G-Hyprland provides optional extra Hyprland customisation.
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- NWG Live
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## Install
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Hyprland can be installed on Arch Linux and Nix distributions. Community scripts are available for Debian and RedHat based distributions.
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!!! WARNING "Hyprland can be very time consuming"
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## Install Options
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!!! WARNING "Hyprland is a quickly evolving project and issues may occur"
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=== "Omarchy"
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[Omarchy](https://omarchy.org/) is a Linux distribution that provides a keyboard driven and unified menu experience, building on Arch Linux and Hyprland (Wayland compositor and tiling window manager).
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Omachy is driven through its menu and configuration files are opened in Neovim (LazyVim config).
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Google Mail and other web apps are opened as headless browsers, for a highly focused experience.
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A base install option allows for a highly customised opeating system, whilst still retaining the simplicity of Omachy.
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=== "Garuda Linux"
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[Garuda Linux](https://garudalinux.org/) is a distribution on top of Arch Linux. There are several variants which includes one centered on Hyprland.
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![NWG Shell desktop screeshot](https://github.com/nwg-piotr/nwg-shell/assets/20579136/402bb806-ff9b-4869-aee0-683b7838e15d){align=right loading=lazy style="height:450px"}
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!!! EXAMPLE "Create USB Startup"
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```shell
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dd bs=4M if=nwg-live-2024.10.01-x86_64.iso of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-Generic_Flash_Disk_<id>-0:0 conv=fsync oflag=direct status=progress

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