awesome
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 14, 2025first mention
Jul 20, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I'm still on AwesomeWM for now because I have no real reason to incur the pain of switching”
“then switched to awesomewm used it for years”
switched from XMonadon “Moving Back to a Tiling WM – XMonad”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Hyprland 0.55 announced the switch to Lua for its config files 1 mention
- Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release 1 mention
- It's time to talk about my writerdeck 1 mention
- Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11 1 mention
- The Dank Case for Scrolling Window Managers 1 mention
- FVWM-95 (2001) 1 mention
Also written as AwesomeWM, awesomewm, Awesome WM. Data: awesome.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“I have switched from FVWM to awesome because of Lua.”
“I'm still on AwesomeWM for now because I have no real reason to incur the pain of switching”
“Since I use the extremely configurable awesomewm window manager”
“I use the tiling "Awesome WM"”
“I've used i3, awesome and pop quite a bit.”
“I used it until switching to AwesomeWM around 2011.”
“I moved over from awesome to qtile as I really didn't use lua”
“then switched to awesomewm used it for years”