Maxim Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes: -- lots of stuff --

Since we're talking about newcomers now, I think there are 2c I 
can share.

- I started sliding down the Emacs slope early this year My 
- initial use case was Org, as a replacement of Jupyter (I want an 
- editor, 
  not a fancy web page) 
- I use Doom. I can say with a great degree of confidence that it 
  has made the 
  transition much easier. 
- I think the best we can hope for is name the most common /paths/ 
  into Emacs, and 
  tell the user what they're getting into. 
E.g.

Emacs :: the one and only, configure everything from scratch - 
know exactly what's going on in your config.
Doom :: Adds a bunch of presets for common tasks, and a bunch of 
helper functions/optimisations
Spacemacs :: Features feature-rich functionally 'layers' for 
common tasks

Whichever you choose, using a version control system such as [git] 
is _highly recommended_. Every now and then you'll accidentally 
break something. This allows you to seamlessly roll back.

Hope that's of some interest,

Timothy.