Prelude helped me start using Emacs around 8 or 9 years ago; it certainly got me up to speed and productive (once I disabled guru-mode ;) ) My .emacs.d is stil

Prelude helped me start using Emacs around 8 or 9 years ago; it certainly got me up to speed and productive (once I disabled guru-mode ;) ) My .emacs.d is still technically a fork of Prelude, but I've gradually been replacing parts with use-package, since that seems like a more lightweight, generic, declarative, modular approach to Emacs config these days.