[ISL]

I've used LyX for ~17 years. Did all of my homework in it in college, wrote my thesis in it, and pull it out anytime I need to write a TeX document for myself.

If you're new to LaTeX, just grab LyX and go. It is a great gateway to LaTeX, and a reliable friend even if you wind up working in pure LaTeX, in order to collaborate or satisfy a formatting requirement, some of the time.

Thank you, LyX!

[lima]

Same here. I spent so much time using LyX, and it's a fantastic project - high quality, great documentation. It accompanied all the way through school and I still use it for letters and such.

Edit: I took the opportunity to donate :)

https://www.lyx.org/Donate

[Quanttek]

One problem for me: the text always fills the full width of the window even though that quickly becomes ineligible. I haven't found a way yet to fix that

[illirik]

Make the window smaller. Seriously, I had the same problem and now I have room on my screen.

[amadvance]

I also wrote my thesis in LyX! About 20 years ago :)