When comparing Sway vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends Sway for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop environments for Arch Linux?” Sway is ranked 4th while Hyprland is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Sway is:
Sway is designed as a Wayland port/replacement for the i3 window manager, and a lot of the config options for i3 work with Sway.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Compatible with i3wm configs
Sway is designed as a Wayland port/replacement for the i3 window manager, and a lot of the config options for i3 work with Sway.
Pro Windows can be rearranged with the mouse
By holding down the modifier key, the mouse can be used to move and resize windows.
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 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.