In my experience, the DEB distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) usually have nano by default, whereas the RPM ones (RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, ...) don't.
That said, i immensely enjoy how small the install size for nano is and how there's no actual work that you need to do to get started with it (unless you need/want customization, like the author of the original article).
Re:GNU nano is my editor of choice
by ineedasername on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:28PM
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That said, i immensely enjoy how small the install size for nano
I used to install lynx web browser for the same reason, especially because at the time it was the age of countless popups and swf everywhere. I should check to see how it is these days, but I stopped using it when webdev made many pages unusable in it.
Re:GNU nano is my editor of choice
by snowwrestler on Friday August 13, 2021 @08:18PM
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When I first started working in Linux, it was in Centos and RHEL and I used nano, since it was already installed and easier to understand than vim.
That was about a decade ago though, maybe RHEL has removed nano since then.
Even if Vim is "better", I think it's important for all distros to include a text editor that is easy to use out of the box, and nano fits that bill perfectly.