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They have a very poor guide to new users who are not familiar with this type of editor. You should have experience using Vi(-m) or Emacs. Spacemacs is distributed based on Emacs, so you should learn the basic of Emacs. This is not a means to learn from the Emacs's original distribution(GNU Emacs) rather than Spacemacs. Although the advantages of Spacemacs can offset the fundamental difficulty of Emacs, it means that you have to learn another new features and modes beyond the Emacs. See More
Besides providing one of the best latex editing experiences, Emacs provides one of the best project manager tools, i.e. org-mode. Combined with the very powerful provided pdf reader (i.e. pdf-tools. b.t.w. it also provides the most powerful djvu editor), Spacemacs provides also one of the best note-taking systems/environments. Due to evil-mode, through which Spacemacs implements vim within Emacs, editing becomes a lot of fun. Through the which-key extension and elisp's describe functionality (and togglable menu-bar), all features are easy discoverable. Finally, when you learn some lisp, you can easily modify or create almost any program you like within the editor. All in all a great, consistent and very fun user experience. (After you took the little initial bump to install it the recommended way, i.e. on WSL, but there exist great guides for that, e.g. at https://github.com/hubisan/emacs-wsl). See More
Space-lead key bindings are organized in mnemonic namespaces. For instance, buffer actions are under SPC b, file actions are under SPC f, project actions are under SPC p, search actions are under SPC s, and so on. Keybindings are consistent across the whole distribution thanks to a set of conventions. See More
Combined with AUCTeX and RefTex plugins it becomes full LaTeX editor with a great writing experience See More
Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza). See More