When I was in high school and used my first Linux machine (a Raspberry Pi), Nano was always the recommended editor when I had to edit config files while not knowing what I was actually doing. Nano is great for those use cases for sure.
But as I've spent more and more time with Unix systems, Vim was become by go to choice. The customizability and power of Vim is great, but there is a steep learning curve if you've never used a Unix machine before and you're just trying to get WiFi working.
With that said, use what you like, all text editors do the same job in the end: edit text.
> When I was in high school and used my first Linux machine (a Raspberry Pi)...
Thanks for making me feel old! My first experience with editing text on a *nix system was vi on my older borther's AT&T SVR4 workstation in the 1980s when I was junior high (my apologies if that reference makes anyone else feel old!).
Actually you just made me feel really young! My first taste of Unix was a dialup shell account in the early 90's. IIRC, vi was the only editor available.
I'm jealous! My dad tells me stories of using Sun Workstations at his university back in the late 80s, and I get jealous of that being his first experience with vi! It's incredible that anyone can pick up a $35 computer now, but there is something so neat about those pre-internet Unix machines to me.
But as I've spent more and more time with Unix systems, Vim was become by go to choice. The customizability and power of Vim is great, but there is a steep learning curve if you've never used a Unix machine before and you're just trying to get WiFi working.
With that said, use what you like, all text editors do the same job in the end: edit text.