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I used Awesome about 5 years ago, and was extremely happy with it, unfortunately an upgrade of Awesome broke my scripts so nothing worked, and I didn't have the time to be distracted and fix it. So I switched to XFCE.
Pretty annoying to have many hours of work destroyed like that. If they have a promise now to not break compatibility with upgrades, I might consider trying it again. But I don't care for a user environment that breaks completely because of changes in an upgrade.