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Portacle worked really well for me on Windows 10, while learning Common Lisp. It's a nice base of settings that can be esiliy expanded upon. Vanilla Emacs was a nightmare. Once I got comfortable with Portacle, I swapped out the emacs folder with the a v28 build for much better performance. Much better than Space/Doom Emacs (on Windows).

Sounds like the errors I got installing spacemacs. I think... I forced it to work by changing the access permissions on a folder that spacemacs itself had created.

Spacemacs is overly complicated. Try Doom, or just start with vanilla Emacs, and add Evil.

Thanks. I will try that.

And if you're going to use WSL, check out:

https://medium.com/@elecming/the-ultimate-emacs-hacking-tuto...

I confirm that, switched from an overly complex config to spacemacs then a year later to doom. Doom feels much more polished, faster and require a lot less configuration, at least for my use case.