It would be helpful to put this somewhere on the page. On mobile especially one isn’t likely to accidentally discover this with random mouse movements.

How could anyone skip any other more "normal" editors and jump right into Vim?

Downloading something over limewire or torrent and seeing a readme file for the first time is a pretty strong memory.

My first IDE was visual studio writing Visual Basic, I quickly binned that for netbeans and Java and then I think ended up using Eclipse.

Today I’m a casual evil mode emacs user mostly for magit and org-mode. also working in VScode for web languages.

But, I also think there’s enough leeway in the idea of “using a tool” to not be surprised that somebody doesn’t count a one-off use of notepad. And I think there must exist at least some people who really never used notepad.

Nowadays I only assume someone between, like, 30 and 50 will inherently have to have used Windows at some point. Outside that range, you might get graybeards who were around before Windows, or younger folks who only ever used smartphones.

Anyway, all that rambling is to say, I’d put it in the “most but not shocking to hear otherwise” category.

What I’ve tried to express is that there’s a small band where not having used it is unusual and surprising, and that isn’t the case anymore. I still think the majority of people have used Windows at least a handful of times but hearing that somebody hasn’t no longer produces a “how could anyone” sort of response.

After trying out finger-twister with Emacs, vim was a breath of fresh air, and had better features than plain "vi", like it was improved or something.

Now, how do I save and exit?

Sort by creation date, notepad, kedit, kwrite, notepad++, Scite, and plenty more.

gvim (for GTK/Gnome) is an official part of vim!

For me it was my first editor on Linux. Didn't stick until I rediscovered it some 20 years ago when I got fed up with the netbeans nonsense and gedit and Kate kept breaking on me.