Thanks for the details. I've jumped around, but use Gnome as it just works and I don't have to tweak much. It sounds like hyprland would allow more control, that after I got past the initial setup, I could kind of set it and forget it, until I wanted to add to it as the landscape changes over the years. Maybe I will continue with both hyprland & Gnome until I get my footing.
Good to know that you can use GUI along with TUI. I would want a GUI wifi manager, because I don't want to mess around with configuring my wifi in the terminal.
Home-manger is great, but yeah, I get the original sentiment. Flakes and home-manager are complicated, until they are not. :)
Also good to hear it works great with gaming. I was just concerned that because most games are full screen and Gnome does it for you, that it would nuke your window setup in a tiling window manager like hyprland, but again I've never used a tiling window manager (other than failing with herbstluft many years ago).
Wayland is great. Just need to figure out remote access and I think I have all the features that X11 offered at this point.
I didn't say it earlier- but your setup looks great btw.
That rug really tied the room together.