When comparing Pantheon vs Hyprland, the Slant community recommends Pantheon for most people. In the question“What are the best desktop environments for Arch Linux?” Pantheon is ranked 11th while Hyprland is ranked 14th. The most important reason people chose Pantheon is:
Pantheon is a lightweight desktop environment that's able to run on many different computers. From my experience, it was fast and snappy with my old HP Pavilion Dv3.
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
Pantheon is a lightweight desktop environment that's able to run on many different computers. From my experience, it was fast and snappy with my old HP Pavilion Dv3.
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 Lacking in customization
While this is an easy alternative directed at less advanced users, I believe other DEs targeted at the same audience achieve a greater level of customization while still not intimidating the target audience..
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.