The reasons us elders use VI is because on a new installation, it was the only thing available until:

1. You are lucky enough to find a compiled version of PINE/PICO, or

2. You have the compiler installed, and can get the source code and build it yourself.

For some reason, some elitists decided that if you don’t know that, then you are a failure. But honestly, when modern distros started coming out with WYSIWYG-type editors, it was a relief, even though I reverted to VI/VIM because of muscle-memory, I do not push it on new users. It’s the same argument people make for driving manual vs automatic, sure it’s useful, but when was the last time you even saw a manual car? (At least in North America).

You want to live dangerously, go ahead and put NetBSD with just the basics and leave the rest of us who want to do something useful alone.

Nano in the CLI, kate in the GUI

Nano because I’m too lazy to learn vim or emacs. I want something that works and not something that operates like cheat codes in old video games.

I use

1. sublime-text when not confined to a terminal
2. nano for example with git’s CLI
3. vi/vim when the others are not available.

Noobs get hit with friendly fire.

dd or GTFO.

My distro came with Nano, so here I am

kate when I am using GUI and vim when I am using CLI.

It’s worse than the picture depicts. It’s not just the lovers, the elitists and the evangelists, it’s the sheer range of choice too, beyond the loudest.

I think it comes with a text editor already built in. I don’t need a text editor though.

I’m using vscode.

i miss notepad plus plus, that’s pretty much the only thing i wish i still had from before linux though.

I want whatever is closest to Notepad++. Honestly, KDE already comes with that built in.

Only Fresh

All I’m gonna say is than nano is installed on almost every Linux os and has the keyboard shortcuts written on the UI.