Active exwm user here: I've been using EXWM for one ~1,5-2 years now, and I've configured it pretty much the same way I would love to have the ideal desktop to look like. Minimal, clean, mostly 1 app to focus on, and only 6 virtual desktops I really use.

I struggled quite a bit with the xinit ath the start, and I had to switch to other terminals to get back to any UI. But now I have a pretty consistently well-running EXWM, only from time to time (once a month) it freezes. Most of the time, because I quickly want to do sth. Mess up pressing multiple wrong key combinations and am stuck with a frozen ui :D For login I use lightdm, that will then load emacs.

What my key pain points still are:

- char and line mode Switching between them is easy, but having different modes, in different buffers can still sometimes mess up with my keys. Esp. when pressing Ctrl-q for escaping, just to realize that this is in line mode, and closing the window, instead of staring a actual sequence, like C-q C-y. Also, when coing through my buffer list, while having the preview active. So in buffer list, use C-n, and when the preview then shows a buffer, that is in line mode, that will capture the focus, and the next C-n will be send to the buffer, instead of the buffer list. Leaving me with a open buffer list in the minibuffer, that I have to manually close.

- some webpages e.g. payment providers open up a popup for confirming. From time to time, this popup is - in the background somehwhere - or floating - or not findable at all, even in my buffer list This is rare, but it happens. And when it happens, it's very annoying to interact with it

- when altering my emacs init config, and rebooting, and I messed things up. Then there is no way other than switching to tty1 and roll back the changes. Though I guess I could change that, through having some kind of check before saving.

- Not a pain point, but I still haven't gotten to the part of using it with multiple monitors. Looking at the config I always say that "I'll do it soon" >D

But overall happy! And thanks to howardism.org for all the wonderfull great emacs write-ups he has. My all time fav. is still the Literate DevOps article, to which I came back often in the past. And now that I think about it, I should re-read it! Thanks Howard!

>consistently well-running

>only from time to time (once a month) it freezes

I'm not trying to call you out personally as I've said and thought similarly in the past but truly what an indictment on the state of software that your whole desktop freezing once a month is considered ok and running consistently