A year and a half? Basically when hyprland got good enough. I used to use awesome and needed something with similar pretty features.
Everything is declared, from packages to configuration, and then I can put it in a git repo locked to versions. If something breaks on updates, you have free rollbacks. Which means you can't screw up too much. Also it has almost all the software.
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