As a full time Emacs user for more than 13 years now, I have at least three explanations (from the worst aspect to the less bad IMHO): 1. Emacs is different (c

As a full time Emacs user for more than 13 years now, I have at least three explanations (from the worst aspect to the less bad IMHO): 1. Emacs is different (copy, paste, undo, exit… none of these work the way they work in Windows, KDE, Gnome, Firefox…). This makes you either configure Emacs to behave like everything else and you end up having a subpar Emacs experience, or try to configure everything else to behave like Emacs and you end up doing everything into it, not unlike many Vim users (I'm on my way to the latter option). 2. Emacs doesn't work out of the box. Seriously, there's so much features builtin (artist-mode is only one of thousands), but so little that actually works for stuff that matters. I'm not even talking about advanced stuff like LSP (that most people take for granted nowadays), just about the most basic stuff like the home / end keys, multi-level undo… It's just a matter of turning a few knobs, but you still have to do that. Oh, and while this could be the best way to start understanding where Emacs is incredibly powerful (customization), it isn't because you do it in Elisp. 3. Emacs is not pretty. I've solved the problem by hiding everything but the text editing UI, but it sure doesn't give much appeal at first sight.