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!