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> The first problem was that they broke my configuration file with every release.

This is the same reason I gave up on AwesomeWM—sometimes things would break and it would take a long time for me to figure out how to fix them.

Nowadays I use i3 as well. Sometimes I do wish the configuration language was more powerful, but I value the stability a lot more.

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Just a little note that we (AwesomeWM team) have stable APIs since 4.0 and each releases no longer break the API. We also have reached 90% code/behavior coverage (from 0% in < 4.0 days).

From a maintainer PoV, this is often a pain since AwesomeWM exposes most of its internal guts, but with enough compatibility code and Android style API levels, we still manage compatibility pretty well.

I love using awesomeWM , thanks a lot for making it !

I know this thread is almost 20h old. But, I started using awesomewm maybe 8 years ago, decided on a look and config and haven't changed it since, every computer i use have the same setup, it is indeed awesome! Thank you so much for your time and dedication, it's a pleasure to use

Yeah, if you started using `git-master` around ~7 years ago, it hasn't broken ever since. The last breaking release was v4.0 in 2016, but it was in development for years before that in the git-master branch. 3.5->4.0 was a pretty nasty upgrade process since we had to nuke a lot of the unsustainable things one last time (https://awesomewm.org/apidoc/documentation/17-porting-tips.m...).

Glad it works for you!

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