No, the best ones are the ones with which you're most productive with.

I'm running Vim / IntelliJ Idea all day long for last few years and wouldn't ever get rid of one or the other. You can use a plugin to have some Vim-like capabilities in idea, but then - when it comes to working with text files (not project files) / ssh / work on remote servers, Vim is my tool to go.

If Notepad or Visual Studio works the same way for you, then you should be happy that you found a tool that works - price has nothing to do with the quality of the tool and quality of the tool has nothing to do with how productive you are when you're using it.

I'm an Open/Libre software fan as well, and JetBrains is really friendly to this world.

Their community edition (which, by the way, is awesome, even without the features from the Ultimate edition) is released under the Apache 2.0 license, and many of the features they develop end up in the community edition. The source code is here: http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Download

For example, Google's Android Studio is built on top of IntelliJ IDEA community edition.

You do know that they offer an Apache 2 licensed community edition of IDEA, which is the same IDE core as is used in all of their other products?

http://www.jetbrains.org/display/IJOS/Home

Disagree, the best tools are the ones that let me get home at 5:30pm every day and complete my work as fast as possible.