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Re:GNU nano is my editor of choice by KronisLV on Friday August 13, 2021 @07:15PM (#28176015)
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 (#28176561)
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 (#28176481)
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.