org-fancy-priorities VS emacs-config

Coming back to post the solution (kind of). The developer of doom emacs traced it to Debian 10-specific packaging of emacs which does weird things with ispell and stops the daemon from starting correctly. It also messes up a bunch of other modules like org-fancy-priorities (see here if you have problems with this package on doomE + Debian 10). The best workaround at the moment is:

As others have pointed out, Doom uses straight.el and there are some pretty notable Doom configurations around, for instance, tecosaurs's.

I tried to adapt this config https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-config but a lot of cool features in the config don't work because they use Xorg apps. I'd like to know if there's someone that already went through this route so I can see how they did it

As a heads up this is not OP's config, but I believe the github repo related to this config https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-config may hold it

With doom you have the option to stay close to its defaults (e.g. henriks config: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs-private/blob/master/config.el), extend and configure doom emacs (e.g. tecosaurs config: https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-config) or build off it and make it your own (e.g. https://github.com/shaunsingh/nyoom.emacs shameless plug)

It seems u/tecosaur has been able to use Github Actions to generate HTML/PDF on export. Though his setup seems to be "involved" :/

The emacs-config of tecosaur (https://github.com/tecosaur/emacs-config) is used with the recent Doom.

This config has a section on using emacs as a systemd service. I haven't tried it personally, but it may be helpful for you.

Thanks! Like many nice things, I am profiting off someone else's nice work here 😁. You can find it in my config repo. Feel absolutely free to reuse/modify it (it's what I've done after all)!