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Who uses, recommends or left Hyprland, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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David Heinemeier Hansson
Creator of Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Kamal and Omarchy; co-owner and CTO of 37signals.
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Hyprland, is made by this cracked kid from Poland that goes by a handle and has an anime avatar. I love it.

On David Senra's podcast (episode published 2026-07-26). On the tiling window manager under his Linux setup (and Omarchy), built by the developer known as Vaxry. Whisper heard the name as "HyperLegend" and "cracked kid" as "crack kit"; the quote keeps the captions' spelling. Quote from YouTube's automatic English captions, checked against a Whisper large-v3 transcription of the same clip; the link opens at the second it was said.

2026-07-26·youtube.com ↗

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