How do I prevent errors with hyprland when updating arch linux?

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Hello, I think that I’m going to try out Hyprland in Arch Linux.

But I have a question. ON inernet, iIhave seen a lot of videos that say that Hyprland easily breaks. Naturally, I’m kinda scared to have only Hyprland as a WM and nothing else. Is there any way to prevent these issues, like looking at the arch news?

Thanks

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Any project that gets lots of development is subject to more breakage than those that don’t. I’ve been running Hyprland on EndeavourOS for a while now, breakages are few and far between. In my case, way less than KDE.

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How frequently do you have an error like hyprland doesn’t launch?

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Personally, I haven’t had hyprland break so much that it doesn’t launch. I think it’s far easier for some config to change and get messed up. For example, when windowrules changed to v2, the old format stopped working and you got a deprecation error. Anyways, any issues should be rather straightforward to solve using the tty (or you could always leave another compositor installed, just in case).

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My advice is to check the blogs vaxry releases about hl, as well as release page on github.

Also backup your dotfiles somewhere,