Not at all. It is the default text editor for Ubuntu's Unity and Gnome Shell, so anyone using either desktop environment will likely use it at some point even i

Not at all. It is the default text editor for Ubuntu's Unity and Gnome Shell, so anyone using either desktop environment will likely use it at some point even if it is just for the lo-fi cases. I use vim for a lot of stuff and IDE's like IntelliJ IDEA as well, but for simple stuff (like copy/pasting stuff from websites, and editing Markdown documents or simple text documents) Gedit is really nice to have. It's pretty much what Notepad should have been on Windows by now; simple, straight forward, clean, but capable enough (syntax highlighting, line numbering, etc.). My girlfriend who isn't a programmer uses it exclusively for text editing. A graphical desktop environment isn't complete without a simple GUI text editor like Gedit.