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When comparing Mutter vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends Hyprland for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Hyprland is ranked 3rd while Mutter is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Hyprland is:
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Specs
LicenseGPL
Programming LanguageC
Typestacking
DecorationsCSD
Default Desktop EnvironmentGNOME
Widget ToolkitGTK+
LicenseBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Programming LanguageC++
TypeTiling
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Pros
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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
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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.