Emacs is great out-of-the-box.
Really its only problem is the annoying bugs you frequently run into. (Emacs Lisp really isn't meant for programming large, stable systems.)
Really its only problem is the annoying bugs you frequently run into. (Emacs Lisp really isn't meant for programming large, stable systems.)
Sure. And because the out-of-the-box is so great: 1. people actually create emacs distributions(!) like spacemacs, doom-emacs, etc. 2. the emacs wiki has https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/DotEmacsBankruptcy
That's like complaining that Windows is broken because it doesn't come with MS Office out of the box.
It's clearly not intended to be reasonable usable without user configuration.
"Slackware is friendly. It's just really picky about who its friends are."
I mean, I'm sure there are like seven, maybe eight, people in the world that think Emacs is great out of the box. Where we run into trouble is that most of those seven or eight people are the ones deciding what Emacs is like out of the box.