After using Doom Emacs for the last 3 months, I've decided to go back to Spacemacs. Doom Emacs has a very quick startup speed, but can pause on commands when first used due to lazy loading, e.g. when listing workspaces. I use 10-20 workspaces regularly (books, projects) and loading them as a sessions after startup was a little tedious. Now I automatically load the last session and startup time is the same as Spacemacs (not surprisingly as I use them in the same way). Alhtough Doom Emacs is a little frustrating to have to have a pause when I first list workspaces for the first time (and a few other commands) My workflow would rather have things loaded up front as I rarely stop/start Emacs, so I find Spacemacs less of an impediment to start. A quick startup is simply not relevant to my workflow. The way the Author uses Doom Emacs is very fast, but its not a workflow that I would like to change to. Using Doom Emacs I've had to learn more vim-style commands to make up for the conveniences that Spacemacs provides, although learning core vim-style commands is very useful in itself. However, there are still things I usually do that are missing and rather than spend time working how to set these up in Doom Emacs I have lots of other TODOs that are currently more valuable. Doom Emacs does feel slightly easier to configure and I am quite happy with the Practicalli Doom Emacs configuration for now. I don't have any plans to extend that configuration or the book at the moment, but will circle back later in the year and see what useful things I can add. The main reason I move back to Spacemacs is all the conveniences that save me a huge amoutn of time and are not there in Doom Emacs (although with time I am sure I could add them). I don't notice any difference in speed during daily use (even when coding on my tablet), so I havent really found an advantage for myself when it comes to Doom Emacs. I think Doom Emacs with my config makes a viable fallback from Spacemacs. If Spacemacs does have major issues at any point, its useful to know I can fall back on Doom Emacs fairly easily. I currently switch between Doom Emacs and Spacemacs using a simple operating system symbolic link (obviously I have to stop Emacs first) I have enjoyed my experience with Doom Emacs and the community has been fairly helpful (once you know where to get help most effectively). I'd encourage people to consider which of the many Emacs setups are the most relevant for their workflow (its all Emacs underneath) Thank you.