My first experience with *nix was a professor leading me into a server room though two biometric locks and setting up the config files for a compute cluster faster than I would have been able to open the files.

He was using Vim, and though it took me a while to learn, the sheer speed with which he was able to get us out of that unbelievably noisy server room sold me for life.

Well, I use vim for text edits and nvim+extensions for an IDE. As close to a vim purist as is reasonable. But frankly, it’s the first one you learn to use well.

Nano 4 life

Helix + my Nix-based configuration tool

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Been using linux full time for 10 years. I do almost all of my system admin stuff in the terminal (my desktop, laptop, home server with a few containers). But i cant for the life of me figure out vim (like i know how, but it just doesnt click for me or feel natural)… i tried a bunch of times and will keep trying… but until then, its (shamefully) nano for me

Nano because It happens to be what I learned first and I don’t get enough of a chance to use my computer anymore to even try anything else

Team vim, but I’ve been using Helix instead for a year or two – it’s like if Neovim and Kakoune had a baby.

Emacs → Vim → Neovim → Helix

My first computer was an Amstrad 664, with a green screen. I’m old. And I’ve been around Vim and EMacs from time to time and I love the console but for the love of god, since GUIs became the normal way to interact with computers, I just install micro now and have the same hotkeys across all the modes of interaction.

Speed of typing really isn’t the defining productivity measure for code.

Now I use VS Code in a GUI and micro on the console and that provides a reasonably consistent way of interacting with text.

I have been learning vim specifically because of VimWiki. It’s always fun getting a few words into writing a document before realizing I wasn’t in Insert mode, then I have to figure out what I messed up.

vim, mainly cause I haven’t figured out how to quit yet.

Micro, for muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts from when I was a mostly GUI user.

vi, since it’s ubiquitous.

NANO I just need simple, and tell an me how to save and exit without abstract key codes.

I am a noob. My server is a MacMini running Ubuntu server because it was easy to install. I have a website, Jellyfin and nexcloud.

I don’t have the brain cells to understand VIM.

In the CLI, I use nano, always. In the GUI, I use Sublime text because the colors are very pretty.