As others have said, Doom seems faster than Spacemacs, especially at startup. Doom has lighter weight config, but it's also less opinionated. I've been using Do

As others have said, Doom seems faster than Spacemacs, especially at startup. Doom has lighter weight config, but it's also less opinionated. I've been using Doom for a while now, and the only thing I missed was Spacemacs' keybindings. Those can be recreated in Doom though[0]. [0] https://github.com/chenyanming/spacemacs_module_for_doom https://github.com/chenyanming/spacemacs_module_for_doom