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Add to SafariWhen comparing Hyprland vs Weston, the Slant community recommends Hyprland for most people. In the question“What are the best Wayland compositors?” Hyprland is ranked 3rd while Weston is ranked 4th. The most important reason people chose Hyprland is:
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
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Pros
Pro Smooth
Animations smoother than you can imagine.
Pro Uses wlroots
The best Wayland compositor library built on standards.
Pro Beautiful
Pro Plugins
Has a plugin system.
Pro Easy to customize
Has a nice wiki which makes customizing it very easy.
Pro Nice appearance
Has a good appearance with borders, buttons as expected of a stacking window manager.
Pro Headless Mode
Can run in headless mode (useful for tests & automation).
Pro Fast
Pro Absolutely very lightweight
Weston is the lightest Wayland compositor. It runs without lag even on old Core 2 Duo laptops, and the Weston animation also runs fluidly without problem.
Pro Simple
Pro Stable
Cons
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.
Con Nearly impossible to manipulate windows programmatically.
Con Basic, less configurable and less compatible
Outside basic window management, no other fancy features. Outside adding launcher to the bar and changing bar colour, no other customisation is available. Also, it is less compatible with most Wayland applications since most are based on wlroots
