Linux has made great strides to being approachable for new users. The agony of choice for so many things (distro, editor, nearly any tool family with more than one option) and the factionalism around the options is probably one of the few big obstacles left.
I don’t have a solution for the factionalism. I’d put forth a suggestion for a simple “standard” choice (Kate/gedit for GUI and nano for CLI; I personally use vim, but I think nano is more approachable) but I’m sure someone will disagree and we’re back to square one.
Linux has made great strides to being approachable for new users. The agony of choice for so many things (distro, editor, nearly any tool family with more than one option) and the factionalism around the options is probably one of the few big obstacles left.
I don’t have a solution for the factionalism. I’d put forth a suggestion for a simple “standard” choice (Kate/gedit for GUI and nano for CLI; I personally use vim, but I think nano is more approachable) but I’m sure someone will disagree and we’re back to square one.
Nano’s still really annoying, Micro is the most approachable one because it isn’t modal.