I'd say it's much more beginner friendly than out of the box Vim and Emacs. In the first couple of days I kept the documentation page [1] open to quickly check

I'd say it's much more beginner friendly than out of the box Vim and Emacs. In the first couple of days I kept the documentation page [1] open to quickly check how to do something (or how to do it easier/faster), than moved to using the builtin commands for getting help [2]. And if you get stuck on something or have a question there is also an active Gitter channel [3]. One thing that you should keep in mind that Spacemacs was meant to be used without the mouse, that may trip up people who are used to clicking around Sublime/Atom or their IDEs. [1] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME... [2] https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUMENTATION.org#getting-help https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs/blob/master/doc/DOCUME... [3] https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs https://gitter.im/syl20bnr/spacemacs