I was reading a post from some guy who can’t get his kids (High school Seniors) to try Linux. While I was reading the different answers and found a suggestion for Hyprland,, (by the guy that’s doing the project, so of course he’d recommend it) I followed the link out of curiosity and it looks really cool if you use the “Animations” part of it you can have a tiled desktop. I’m off to load this on a VM and try using it to replace Gnome 3 
and see how much it changes things.
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I think @shybry747 gave it a go. I’ve watched this video 9 months ago (search my YT history lol):
I think Wayland issues were some main downsides with Hyperland. I am not sure how much that has changed.
Hyprland is definitely nice. If you want bling they are the king. They recently changed their wayland base from wlroots by Sway to their own custom made base. It works great. I haven’t used it recently since my only problem with it was I needed to use a plugin, and whenever Hyprland was upgraded, you had to update the plugin as well. 'Twas a bit too much for me. Other than that you will have fun with this wayland tiling window manager.
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The only part that makes me nervous is they created it and tested it in Arch & NIXos and I’ve not seen much in the Debian install part of the instructions. They claim it (Hyprland) has been added to the "SID (Experimental) " repository. Trixie is Testing in case anyone was curious.
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If I was using Hyprland in Debian I would be very nervous too. Arch has plenty of instructions and troubleshooting guides for Hyprland. Debian though … 
Well, it’s not in the Debian repos like they claim on the web page.
Because Trixie is about to be released as Debian 13, SID & Testing are mostly one in the same.
So I tried the manual install, I even followed the instructions. So, the first problem is a lot of the packages that are required to run it aren’t available in Debian. some of the commands (ninja -C, for example) won’t run and is a program that isn’t in the Debian repos. I tried to finish out the installation and it didn’t work, I wasn’t able to launch it by any of the commands they list and ended up giving up on the install.
Oh well, it looked cool maybe the project will mature enough it can be added to other distros besides Arch & NixOS. I guess that’s life in the big city. 
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