Here’s the Deal
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When comparing Hikari vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends Hyprland for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Hyprland is ranked 3rd while Hikari is ranked 7th. The most important reason people chose Hyprland is:
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Specs
LicenseCopyright 2020 raichoo (Redistribution and use in source and binary forms)
Programming LanguageC
TypeStacking/Tiling
Compositor Librarywlroots
DecorationsSSD
PlatformsFreebsd, Linux
LicenseBSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
Programming LanguageC++
TypeTiling
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Pros
Pro Stacking/Tiling hybrid view management
Pro View marks
Pro Minimalistic Look & Feel
Pro Keyboard oriented
Pro Configurable tiling capability
Pro Modal interface
Pro Arbitrary view grouping
Pro UCL configuration
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 No window elements
No border, buttons etc.. It looks more like a tilling compositor than a stacking one.
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.