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I've never worked with distros targeting enterprise, but I've never encountered a distro that didn't include nano. Even if Vim is "better", I think it's import

• KronisLV 5y ago
  In my experience, the DEB distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, ...) usually have nano by default, whereas the RPM ones (RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux, ...) don't. That said, i immensely enjoy how small the install size for nano is and how there's no actual work that you need to do to get started with it (unless you need/want customization, like the author of the original article).
  • snowwrestler 5y ago
    When I first started working in Linux, it was in Centos and RHEL and I used nano, since it was already installed and easier to understand than vim. That was about a decade ago though, maybe RHEL has removed nano since then.
  • ineedasername 5y ago
    That said, i immensely enjoy how small the install size for nano I used to install lynx web browser for the same reason, especially because at the time it was the age of countless popups and swf everywhere. I should check to see how it is these days, but I stopped using it when webdev made many pages unusable in it.