[radicalriddler]

Bought a new Macbook recently and tried most of these. Ghostty seems really good. It _just works_. Helix is pretty cool, also feels like it _just works_ versus something like base nvim (although I'd start with kickstart.nvim). Maybe I should give Fish a go.

Zed's pretty much fully replaced VSCode on my Macbook, but that's not new, it's been my daily driver for months.

An honorable mention from me is Zellij. Feels a lot more user friendly to beginners than tmux.

[sudomateo]

Oh Zellij, I forgot to mention that! I installed it a few weeks ago with the intention of replacing tmux but then I thought about using Ghostty to replace tmux and haven't configured my keybindings yet. Zellij is pretty slick and beginner friendly like you mentioned.