I've heard of the Hypr ecosystem a bit, with things like Hypr{lock,idle,paper,lax,etc} which I believe offer more eye candy than their sway (or something else, such as gtklock) equivalents. Now, I know that both will always have their own advantages, but I would like a sort of community opinion on when it is worth it to use a Hypr ecosystem product over another.
The first OS I touched was ChromeOS, first real OS was Debian 12 in a VM inside of a container (crostini). This was all before I could even think of getting another computer. I can barely even remember why I turned on crostini, probably for programming because I was interested in it at the time & I still am.
When I did get a new computer just recently, it was on windows, locked to Chinese through the license (I got the laptop from China), but I was already intending to install Gentoo after having installed Gentoo on an old 15 year old windows computer lying around. So Linux was kind of a no-brainer for me, as can't use Chinese windows, & using windows is like transitioning to Linux for the normies, also, I was already engrained in the Linux environment, I loved Niri, even on the old 15 year old laptop.
Just wanted to share my story, more or less.