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Comment by smitty1e | Hacker News Reader

For those with wretched joints (me), Spacemacs[1] is a way to have all that org-mode[2] functionality, the joys of magit[3] and have it all work well over SSH.

Leave all the icons to their fans.

[1] https://www.spacemacs.org/

[2] https://orgmode.org/

[3] https://magit.vc/

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After finding doom-emacs, I love that even more. Almost instant startup, non-broken magit key bindings, doom doctor etc.

https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

It seems like doom-emacs is the new way to go. I feel quiet sad about this cause I spent some time to switch to Spacemacs and now I have to move to another emacs distro.

Why do you have to move? Are you using the dev-branch Spacemacs or master?

master cause I want something stable.

I'm on dev and it's quite stable, imo. Then again I'm not a spacemacs poweruser so...

Anyone is info about the release model of Spacemacs ? It seems like nothing is moving. Any news ?

The release model is a mess. Most people tend to stick with using Spacemacs on the `develop` branch, which means updating via `git pull --rebase` every so often as well as the inbuilt `SPC f e U`.

I've been using Spacemacs for around a year on the `develop` branch. For me it's fine, but for those who want a very stable experience I don't recommend it -- it does break sometimes.

This unclear release strategy sends a bad signal to the community and pushes people to doom-emacs. Sad to see ...

Which also has most of the good stuff on the develop branch :)

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