>I felt overwhelmed by the very poor default UI that it offers and the amount of options and shortcuts that I needed to know to operate it well and be productive

Typical Macintosh user.

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EPendragon 6 days ago | parent [-]

lol, that's likely part of the problem :D

I have started using nvim about a year ago, and that one also took three separate tries before it finally stuck with me :) After that, about 8 months ago I found tmux and had a harsh "first impression".

These days I enjoy using both of those tools and get more excited the more I learn about them.

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burnt-resistor 5 days ago | parent [-]

LazyVim helped save me time configuring nvim for a broad range of integrations.

It's modular and customizable.

	▲	EPendragon 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I tried LazyVim a couple of times, but felt that I would rather go back to a simpler nvim setup, and then build it up myself and learn as I go. I have stuck and enjoyed kickstart.nvim: https://github.com/nvim-lua/kickstart.nvim It has been my starting point, and I have gradually been adding new plugins and reconfiguring existing ones.