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.

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.

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

Gram with a modifed helix

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

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.

Kate master race of KDE

Gentoo picked vi for me about 20 years ago…

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”, “<Esc>” and “:wq”.