A while ago I wrote a package that helps a new user to configure Emacs: it takes a user through some interactive pages, where changes takes effect immediately; and in the end it generates some code that can be copied to init.el. 

Demo for the original package: https://youtu.be/0qMskTAR2aw

I made some improvements to that package and renamed it setup-wizard. Do you think we could add it to ELPA? Maybe the name is too “official”, in that case I can rename it to yuan’s-setup-wizard or something.

I don’t know how useful could it be, since nowadays every body (understandably) starts with some community distribution rather than vanilla Emacs, but surely it is better than not having a wizard.

You can try it out with emacs -q -l setup-wizard.el -f setup-wizard

Yuan