Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Lipstick vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends Hyprland for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Hyprland is ranked 3rd while Lipstick is ranked 15th. The most important reason people chose Hyprland is:
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Specs
LicenseLGPLv2.1
Programming LanguageC++
Typefullscreen
Compositor LibraryQtWayland
DecorationsSSD
Widget ToolkitQT
LicenseBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Programming LanguageC++
TypeTiling
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Pros
Pro Touchscreen support
It can be used via touchscreen.
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
No cons yet!
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.