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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.

Noobs get hit with friendly fire.

dd or GTFO.

When I uninstalled Windows and switched to Linux (CachyOS (which is Arch BTW)) I also took the time to free myself from VScode to completely escape Microsoft's fuckery.

I learned how to use Neovim. I've got a configuration that I really like and I took care to make it portable enough that I can just copy over the init.lua file to set everything up on a different computer.

However this is only earned through weeks of Lua hell. You are effectively building your own editor from almost the ground up. I only recommend Neovim if you want the first medium scale project you work on to be Neovim itself.

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).

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.

Gram with a modifed helix

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

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

hx

I use nano for simple text edits, anything more and I use sublime, or code.

Used to develop c++ in emacs though, never got the benefit of VIM, super hard to use.

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.

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.

Kate and Geany are where its at tbh.

Kate master race of KDE

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

Gentoo picked vi for me about 20 years ago...

I used to use nano.

Since I learned how to exit vim, without murdering it, I use vim. Vim is mostly my choice becasue deleting and moving lines is incedibly fast and it has the very best code highlighting.

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.

I use nvim/ vim just because i was new and didn't know anything I could edit on an ssh connection with beside vim. And it isn't that hard, using lazyvim atm (still new and dont have time to configure myself) and if I can just use the mouse if I am too stupid, not that hard. But it get more and more convenient as time goes on. You encounter enough times and just think to yourself "is there a better way?" and most of the time there is! Just start with "i", "" and ":wq".

Comparing an Operating System with text editors doesn't make any sense.