I have been testing wallets to select the best one to onboard no-coiners at local meetups but it turned out as a nightmare. Firet they are way too many wallet out there to choose and not even one is close enough to be user friendly for a newbie. You talk about Bitcoin but then the Phoenix wallet talk about Lightning and worse, ask you to pick one option while paying without explaining what it means.
Other like BlueWallet through at you a mnemonic phrase to backup on second screen before you can even do anything, hard to make it more scary to a new comer.
Zeus is just a huge mess with so many questions and leaving default end up with ecash and mint to choose from, with zero option to get you first bitcoins from an onchain transaction.
And I'm not talking about the ones that want your phone number to start or the one showing the Bitcoin symbol for sats...or absolute worst, the one with 20 Bitcoin layer to choose from.
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definitely need more wallet competition. I think its doable, but its just really hard problem
Sad to hear you feel that way about ZEUS.
fwiw, with the new onboarding process in v13 mints are automatically recommended to you via Nostr's web of trust.
you can also start with the on-chain wallet right away. from there it's just two presses to open a channel with those funds to our node.
Don't get me wrong, I love Zeus and it's the wallet I use the most but I cannot recommand it to a no-coiner, only to a Bitcoiner that have some concept of Bitcoin, Lightning and ecash already.