CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@hell yes, and very slightly opinionated, so as your tastes change, bedrock is easy to tweak. it's really well documented too.

@hell so many good suggestions here, so I'll just chime in to say be prepared for your emacs journey not to be linear. let's say you start vanilla, but it's frustrating, so you give up or jump to a big distro, but that feels like too much, and on it goes. I've broken up with and returned to emacs several times. Currently using emacs-bedrock as @mousebot shared. There's a lot of value in learning what the capabilities are before settling on something that works for you. Most important: have fun