Have a look at https://github.com/zyedidia/micro, which has those keybindings by default. Mouse support too. Completely eliminated the text editing learning curve for me, and years later, I still use it happily.

Edit: Oh, I see it's been recommended in this thread already.

I actually think CUA binds are limiting and it's good to learn something else, but if you do want them, emacs has an option for enabling them. I've never tried it, but it's there.

vim works quite well with standard keyboards. Put this in your .vimrc:

set nocompatible

behave mswin

Or use `evim`.

Btw, 'set nocompatible' is never necessary in a vimrc file. When Vim detects a user vimrc file, it automatically sets nocompatible.

Control W is really annoying. But you can rebind keys, but that wasn't untill fairly recently that you could that.