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Can someone give me a tl;dr about hyprland? Is there any noticeable difference(s) compared to wayland? Thanks.
Hyprland is a Wayland compositor. Wayland is the set of protocols, Wlroots is an implementation of these protocols, allowing developers to create a Wayland compositor without having to worry about all the lower-level stuff, while still having to implement a lot on their own. Hyprland is a tiling Wayland compositor, the Wayland equivalent of a tiling window, and it includes features like animations and rounded corners (basically eyecandy). Brodie Robertson had a very good explanation on his channel, but I can't seem to be able to find it.
Alright, that'll do it. Thanks.
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