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Wait, people are still using nano?
Well yeah, for computers in kindergarten schools.
Ships with Gentoo by default, since you actually need a nongraphical editor there and nano is easier to learn than vi or emacs.
I use both nano and vim, so eh
I started with vi, and I still prefer to use nano.
Nano rock!!!, it get the jobs done and doesn't make everything difficult for no reason
People who only use the terminal to edit a few config files are usually fine with nano. Even more so with these new keybindings.
For more involved edits an editor like VSCode is usually more useful anyway.
For me vim works well, but I've already taken the time to learn its basic usage.
I've never used anything else since I met Linux in 2018
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