TL;DR: Hyprland 0.55 switched from Hyprlang to Lua, breaking everything. I spent days tweaking my setup, only for the dev to announce the change weeks after I felt it was finished . Switched to Niri in under 2 hours. The Breaking Point I was a Cybersecurity undergrad / Jr DevOps / part-time blogger / gamer with a perfect Hyprland setup. Then 0.55 dropped. Suddenly: Config files broken Plugins non-functional Workspace rules gone Days of debugging for nothing The dev announced the Lua migration right after I thought I’d finally stabilized things. That was the signal to leave. Why Niri? Scrolling + tiling (no more manual window snapping) Config based on my old Hyprland layout (easier migration) Thanks to DankMaterialShell’s Quickshell + styling, I got a polished UI fast Total migration time: <2 hours vs. weeks of Hyprland rewrites The Tradeoff Less community support right now (it’s newer) Different workflow (scrolling vs. traditional tiling) But honestly? Stability > features at this point.…