When comparing Qtile vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends Hyprland for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Hyprland is ranked 3rd while Qtile is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose Hyprland is:
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Hackable ecosystem
With easy writing your own widgets or extensions, hooks you can make it powerful integrated system. Dmenu friendly environment. Easy scriptable even with bash by qtile-cmd. Nice keybinding cheet sheet generator
Pro Extensible
It's easy to write your own layouts, widgets, and built-in commands.
Pro Written and configured entirely in Python.
You can leverage the full power and flexibility of the language to make it fit your needs.
Pro Free and open-source software.
It's distributed under the permissive MIT license.
Pro Active and growing community
There's always someone to lend a hand when you need help.
Pro Interactive
The commands you use in the Qshell (built in shell for interacting with the window manager) has an intuitive filesystem-like feeling, while staying so close to Python syntax you can basically paste it into your config file. And the best part, if you don't like Qshell, just use Your shell. qtile-cmd exposes all of Qtile's functionality to the console.
Pro Smooth
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Pro Uses wlroots
The best Wayland compositor library built on standards.
Pro Plugins
Has a plugin system.
Pro Beautiful
Pro Easy to customize
Has a nice wiki which makes customizing it very easy.
Cons
Con Doesn't handle errors well
As Qtile uses python, it crashes upon errors instead of handling it gracefully ( like in awesomwm).
Con Early development stages
It has a few bugs and missing features.
Con Difficult setup
It has a lot of dependencies which is difficult to find and build in Debian. Also most dependencies are not found in the system repository.