So, in short, I get questioned and critiqued about how I want something, on my desktop, in a group where customizing is king. Hell I don't even mind the RTFM nature as I am learning by doing that.

But seriously, this is rampant throughout Linux. And for that, we won't be in year of the Linux
7/7

I wasn't wanting any hand holding, I'll tinker myself as long as I know it can be done.

But I was met with more about "why would you ever need that" or "a bar doesn't take up that much screen space, nothing you do would need that"

It's an aesthetic. I have spent a lot of time tweaking my setup
6/?

One big thing I like, is an ultra small, top bar, that is normally hidden, and only shows itself when holding the Super key.

I go to the hyprland discord, and just ask if anyone has done that, and if they did, what bar did they use

(i3bar won't work and it's what I used)
5/?

I only had one major issue, and it wasn't related to my config, but the fact I was trying to use LightDM as a display manager (yay interesting software/hardware glitch). But no big deal, once I realized it was that and not a config.

I am extremely minimalist when it comes to my desktop
4/?

I've tried Sway in the past and it went absolutely brutal, but this time I decided to pickup hyprland

Went through all the documentation on hyprland and Arch wiki to get it playing nice with nVidia, including having to change some things because I use dracut rather than mkinitcpio

3/?

So, biggest thing is I've been running on X11 based things for a while, because nVidia drivers definitely did not play nice with the Wayland protocols.

I've been seeing a lot of driver updates doing my system updates and seeing that Wayland support under nVidia is increasing
2/?

The Windows 10 EOS is what finally got my mom (mid 60's) to switch over. She had a perfectly fine PC for what she needs (minor web browsing, posting bills, light office work)

Over Thanksgiving we backed up all the old pictures, wiped her computer clean, setup Debian + XFCE

It's been smooth

What a terrible thought.

I've been on Endeavour as my daily driver (work included) for about 2 years now