On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 10:43:10AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-06-26 at 13:37 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > 
> > > Mint's default seems to be nano, though like openSUSE, it is doing this
> > > some way other than by setting $EDITOR.
> > > 
> > Mints just a derivative of openSuse, isn't it?  It would make sense that 
> > this
> > followed.
> 
> I thought it was a derivative of Debian and/or Ubuntu? Wikipedia has it
> in the 'Ubuntu derivatives' category. But anyhow, it doesn't behave
> like openSUSE, it doesn't have the weird mix - for all three tests I
> used (visudo, git, systemctl edit) I got nano.
> 
> > > So, it's a bit of a mixed bag, overall. But Ubuntu and Mint both using
> > > nano is pretty significant.
> > > 
> > Yeah, but significant in what way?  We have two fairly popular distributions
> > using nano, but over 1,000,000 people trying to figure out how to exit vi on
> > stackexchange.  Is the user base for other distros defaulting to vi just 
> > that
> > much bigger?
> 
> Dunno. Maybe if Debian and Ubuntu defaulted to vi there'd be 5,000,000
> people? :D
Possibly :)

I guess the real conclusion we can imply here is that new users just use
whatever the default is.

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