Another (new) Emacs user here, I managed to reduce Emacs startup time to 0.6s - 0.5s on my garbage hardware. Some Emacs users have even manages to reduce the startup time to 0.3 - 0.2 seconds!
Also, launching Emacs in --daemon mode makes creating new frames instantanous and because of it you won't experience any form of lag when using Emacs!
A wonderful chat application indeed! Wish SimpleX was built with Material You support though.
At this point, it would be insane to classify it as a text editor only. I personally refer to it as the "Emacs distribution"; a distribution that happens to have its own integrated text editor and other useful tools. But a more accurate description is, Emacs is an e-lisp interpreter and because of this it's a very extensible tool!
Congratulations to the openSUSE team/contributors for helping maintain this wonderful project! 🎉
NixOS ftw! xD
Only if simplex-chat had better UI...