But have been enjoying learning alot of emacs (oh god so much to learn :))
I'm not ready to make the jump (not sure I will jump at all, but...) I am gonna mess with guix in a vm to see how I roll with that.
I've got a lot of digital versions of various books on lisp/scheme but only played with them. Eventually I think it'd be great to do more with slime/sly and sbcl. But for now sticking with the basics. It's a real head trip to see the power of emacs, and it feels like it's hard to explain to people why it's so fascinating (to me).
I have a feeling I picked a good time to hop in, because a lot of the quality of life features seem to have only come in the past few years.
(my experience is specifically to use vanilla and build up from there, to both learn, and to get used to the "proper" way. I was afraid doom or space would end up getting me into their mental models, and didn't want to feel "locked in")
Of course shout out to systemcrafters, joshblais, protesilaos, sacha chua, mickey peterson (and mastering emacs).
God, I haven't even mentioned org-mode or magit (though magit is still a bit rough, I'm used to lazygit - in some ways using magit is making me understand some things about how git operates better).
The other thing is - I feel like I'm walking on unstable ground when using emacs - maybe it's just because I'm learning, and it's so easy to modify, I always feel like I'm about to break something. I know "backup stable config" and reset from that if it breaks, is obvious; but there's a feeling of looseness that comes from it that's a bit intimidating.
I guess I had that feeling with vim at first to. Obviously it's not going to "break" but as a noob, sometimes it's intimidating and feels that way.
The other thing I need to work towards is mastering workspaces/projects (and maybe tab integration) right now I run server/client windowed, no chrome (no tab, title bar). May add tabs for project management, but I wanted to get used to using M-x for things first (and man does vertico, consult, orderless and marginalia help with discovery!) Embark is another big tool I have so much to learn about.
And seeing how people use emacs for publishing. Linkarzu interviewed an author who talked about he used LaTeX for publishing.
One of my favorite facts is telling people that emacs is one of the oldest actively maintained piece of software still at large. It makes me feel like I'm part of an ancient tradition LOL.
Happy Bday Emacs!