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When comparing i3wm vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends i3wm for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop environments for Arch Linux?” i3wm is ranked 2nd while Hyprland is ranked 14th.
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LicenseBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Programming LanguageC++
TypeTiling
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Pros
Pro Keyboard centric
Pro Completely customizable
Pro Minimal and fast
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 You have to learn it first, otherwise it's useless
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.