I started with TeXworks (+ XeTeX, which both happen to have been created by Jonathan Kew) and I found no reason to change since then. The only slight drawback is that autocomplete support exists but is rudimentary, however it doesn’t bother me that much.
Which editor do you prefer?
Overleaf, because I don’t have to download an application.
Vim + TeX Live on Gentoo
MiKTeX, because it’s the first one I stumbled upon in high school and I don’t use LaTeX enough to be bothered to optimize my choice of editor.
I myself use TeXStudio with a texlive-full install. I may switch to something else, but currently it is a convenient setup.
Nvim. autopair.nvim let’s you autoclose “begin[]” macros. Luasnip let’s you create custom snippets for every macro you use. I also use Emmet LSP for inline svg.
Neovim with vimtex and texlab language server. Learning nvim takes some time, but I made preconfig, which allows to start a bit easier
I second this. Getting started started takes some effort, but writing in Neovim is such a joy on its own. Especially implementing comments from other people is much faster and if you use git, you can also easily switch back to earlier versions and/or compare your changes.
emacs
TexStudio, the multi view and jump to source/output is great on big projects. Zotero macro is very helpful. Compile/clean buttons that also work on multi file projects are huge time savers.
VS Code with the LaTeX workshop plugin. Works like a charm. You need to have LaTeX installed in your system
