linuxmemes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Micro.

I hate modal keybindings (Vim, Nano and Emacs, all alike; though the Object-Verb paradigm looks promising for me, but until now, nothing's better than quasimodal CUA/spring-loaded CUA).

Noobs get hit with friendly fire.

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

hx

First choice: use a normal damn GUI text editor

Second choice: Nano. It's simple and comprehensible, and a best CLI choice for newbies. You can then turn to vim, emacs, or whatever, but don't make your life harder from the get-go

People suggesting to start with Vim are probably the same ones pushing for Arch as a first distro. C'mon.

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

Kate master race of KDE

Linux has made great strides to being approachable for new users. The agony of choice for so many things (distro, editor, nearly any tool family with more than one option) and the factionalism around the options is probably one of the few big obstacles left.

I don't have a solution for the factionalism. I'd put forth a suggestion for a simple "standard" choice (Kate/gedit for GUI and nano for CLI; I personally use vim, but I think nano is more approachable) but I'm sure someone will disagree and we're back to square one.

Wait until you get cornered by elite Helix enjoyers