> It's the community widgets that tend to have memory leak problems, not the core package. As mentioned, this seems to be a quirk in how Lua and GTK interact (many community widgets use GTK).

What widgets are you referring to that you found to have leaks?

> You'll just have to take my word for it when I tell you that I've tried very hard and for a very long time.

It's just that it seems to contradict most of the other reports I've seen, but then I don't care about stacking myself, so ok.

> I wouldn't really call AwesomeWM exceptionally user-friendly. The docs are good. The API is good. It's developer-friendly, certainly, but that's as far as the ease-of-use goes.

I said it was user-friendly for what it is. There is nothing else really like it that allows that level of extensibility, and given how it abstracts so much complexity, I would say they did indeed do a good job of making it user friendly. Again though, that's keeping in mind what it is. It isn't trying to be i3/xfce/etc or as user-friendly as those.