By Rob LeFebvre
Publication Date: 2026-06-05 18:30:00
In my time messing around with Hyprland and other tiling window managers on Linux, I ran into some complaints on various forums and GitHub comments. The Hyprland wiki says that there’s no official Nvidia support, saying that the drivers are too messy for the team to guarantee any sort of quality. One user on GitHub said that after each update, Hyprland on Nvidia has become increasingly unstable, with flickers and other weirdness. So I decided to test it myself on my own MSI Cyborg 15 that has an RTX 4050 in it to see if the complaints still hold up.
Spoiler: most of the problems seem to be gone, at least on my machine. Getting there, however, was its own kind of nightmare.
The installation took half a day
And almost none of it was Hyprland’s fault
Hyprland officially supports Arch Linux and NixOS. I decided to run EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distribution that used to include a Hyprland…