# Org-roam major redesign **URL:** \ **Category:** Development\ **Created:** [January 23, 2021, 1:17pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-major-redesign/1198 "2021-01-23T13:17:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 117
**Author:** ![nobiot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/org-roam.discourse.group/nobiot/32/159_2.png) [@nobiot](https://org-roam.discourse.group/u/nobiot)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 7:12pm UTC](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-major-redesign/1198/117 "2021-03-24T19:12:37Z")
@Mark, My suggestion has been the same since the Actual State thread. Please take a small step at a time. If you have no reason to stay with Doom, please at least consider using vanilla Emacs with minimal config. I have written a [step-by-step guide](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/zero-to-emacs-and-org-roam-a-step-by-step-guide-on-windows-10/400). It’s for Windows, but the majority of config should be applicable to macOS and Linux. After I have written it, I switched back **from** Doom **to vanilla** ; no looking back. Some people have different opinions and experience, which is healthy as a community, but I will still say that Doom is not beginner friendly, even compared with vanilla. This is so especially when you don’t have a programming background or Vim background (I don’t know if you have either). For the same reason, I would suggest to refrain from using V2 if you are still learning Emacs. V2 is still in early alpha and the community has just begun trying it out — that is, we are not collectively ready to support beginners of Emacs and Org-roam on V2. For example, Doom does not support V2 yet (even Jethro, Doom user, uses personal config.el to enable V2). --- _[View the full topic](https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/org-roam-major-redesign/1198)._