I agree but I’ve found that a lot of users don’t know they can set EDITOR in their shell profile – or that the `chsh` command exists to let them change their login shell.

Yeah the “create your account” part of the install should expose a few more settings such as the above, or perhaps a more generic “user account settings” pane in the major DEs to show the most common environment configurations for user accounts

I am one of those that didn't know chsh was a thing - thanks for the tip!