Okay I think I figured it out - but now I am getting this error when trying to enter my user password for the ZED_KEYRING_PASSWORD: 9:14AM ERR terminated with errors error="aes.KeyUnwrap(): integrity check failed." What gives, is there some other password that I should use and would I find that?

When you aren't on a platform with a native keychain manager (e.g. macOS, Linux+GNOME/KDE), ZED_KEYRING_PASSWORD is what's used to encrypt files on disk that store credentials in $HOME/.zed or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zed. The first time you create a context, it'll prompt you to create a password to encrypt that configuration. Going forward, whenever zed needs to access those credentials, it'll prompt you for that password, just like the keychain on your system you can delete

.zed

folder to recreate the keyring password

Sick, that was it! Thank you!