[whazor]

I found it much easier to install a list of twenty plugins myself.

The problem I had with these projects is that in order to use them, you first have to read the plugin documentation before understanding how to use it.

I used these projects to check what plugins they were using, and then I would go to the plugin Github and check what is does. Then if I like it, I would copy it inside.

[kzrdude]

LazyVim is relatively transparent and easy to copy in this sense. AstroNvim should be too, now that they both use lazy.nvim for packages.

[whazor]

Indeed, and AFAIK there is normally little configuration beyond plugin installation. But please correct me if I am wrong.

[kzrdude]

I don't know if I'm contradicting myself but LazyVim has a lot of configuration code in addition, lots of custom keybindings and tweaks to each plugin's config.

But it's transparent in the sense that the lazyvim documentation site reveals how each part is configured.