When comparing Liri Desktop vs Wayfire, the Slant community recommends Wayfire for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Wayfire is ranked 2nd while Liri Desktop is ranked 17th. The most important reason people chose Wayfire is:
The usage of a plugin system allows for a lot of customisability.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Build for Wayland
Pro Virtual machine support for VMware and QEMU
At the point of writing VirtualBox doesn't support Wayland yet.
Pro Great Look
It has a great look compared to other desktop environments and os
Pro Plugin approach
The usage of a plugin system allows for a lot of customisability.
Pro Nice blur feature
The blur plugin makes this compositor look nice.
Pro Fastest compositor with earth.google.com/web
Pro Optional tiling
Wayfire has a basic tiling extension built in, and more advanced third party plugins like this one are available.
Cons
Con Slower than Weston
This is true, however Weston is not designed to be a standalone desktop environment
Con looks like mobile os. Very buggy too
Con Less configurable compared to x11 counterparts
The borders and title bars are less customizable. Outside colour change nothing else is possible. Plugin approach is a plus but as of now, no known plugin is available to change the appearance of window decoration. Firedecor is a good option but seems deprecated as it doesn't match the current Wayfire version.
Con Dependency issues
Hard to match builds with correct wlroots version. Building is difficult because wlroots version is either greater or lesser than the required version.
Con Plugins require working wayfire to build but with each update, the plugin becomes incompatible and unbuildable
The case with firedecor.
Con Cut/paste not reliable
Sometimes it works, sometimes not. But most of the time not.