HyDE (Hyprdots Desktop Environment) provides a modular, fluid and heavily customized Arch Linux environment on Hyprland. Features custom dynamic theme switching across 15+ styles, Waybar integration, Kitty terminal styling, Rofi-wayland app launcher, Dunst notifications, and streamlined pacman/AUR package workflows.
02. Installation & Deployment
Before you installThis changes your desktop configuration and installs packages. Run it as your normal user, never with sudo: it asks for sudo only where a step needs it (listed below).The guided installer shows its plan first. Files it would replace are kept unless you approve. Everything it copies, clones or appends to in your home folder is backed up and verified first, and --rollback restores it. Packages, sudo changes and the other commands listed under Impact are not undone.
IntegrityEach release from main builds the installers in GitHub Actions and signs them with a GitHub build attestation. Verify your download against the repository, not this website (Option B, step 2). If it does not verify, don't run it.
ImpactPackages: base-devel, gitWrites: ~/HyDERuns the upstream installer ./install.sh, which manages its own files. The guided installer backs up your usual desktop config folders first.
RecoveryGuided: backups in ~/.local/state/0xtsoa/backups/, undo with bash install.sh --rollback.Manual: back up first (Option A, step 3).
Option A: manual installAdvanced
Read the source at the reviewed commit, back up, then run each step yourself.
$git clone https://github.com/prasanthrangan/hyprdots ~/0xtsoa-review/prasanthrangan-hyprdots# 1. clone to a review folder
$git -C ~/0xtsoa-review/prasanthrangan-hyprdots checkout --detach 3c8b0dfb5e7f8e41a67b80463513f10d57cab1a4# 2. the reviewed commit
$for p in ~/HyDE ~/.config/hypr ~/.config/quickshell ~/.config/waybar ~/.config/eww ~/.config/ags ~/.config/hyprpanel ~/.config/kitty ~/.config/foot ~/.config/alacritty ~/.config/wezterm ~/.config/ghostty ~/.config/rofi ~/.config/wofi ~/.config/fuzzel ~/.config/dunst ~/.config/mako ~/.config/swaync ~/.config/i3 ~/.config/sway ~/.config/niri ~/.config/bspwm ~/.config/sxhkd ~/.config/awesome ~/.config/polybar ~/.config/picom ~/.config/qtile ~/.config/wlogout ~/.config/swaylock ~/.config/fish ~/.config/nvim ~/.config/fastfetch ~/.config/starship.toml ~/.config/matugen ~/.config/wal ~/.config/gtk-3.0 ~/.config/gtk-4.0 ~/.config/Kvantum ~/.config/qt5ct ~/.config/qt6ct ~/.bashrc ~/.zshrc ~/.themes; do [ -e "$p" ] && cp -a "$p" "$p.bak-0xtsoa"; done# 3. back up what the steps write
Read the upstream installer in ~/0xtsoa-review/prasanthrangan-hyprdots before running it, and every script it calls.Then the steps. Package commands are written for Arch; on other distros use your package manager.
The same steps as one script for any distro. It shows the plan first, keeps files you already have unless you approve replacing them, and backs up everything it changes in your home folder. Never pipe it into a shell.