Why would I use Notepad? I'd have to install it first. Does it even have a Linux version or would I have to use Wine? This meme is giving me headaches.
I just read a micro vs. nano. But each point in favor of micro was "i have that already in nano". Syntax highlighting, status bar with col/line, undo/redo, even mouse support.
I like both. But many people don't even realize that nano has quite a lot of configuration options. To me, they're text editors, not code editors. For code, I use VSCode (or "code", the FOSS variant).
I once worked on a team in a company who had to ssh into a server and do all the development work on that server. So all we could use was either vim or emacs. I had my vim decked out with all the plugins and customizations, and it was fine.
But after you get back to using an IDE (especially an IDE with a vim plugin), it's hard to go back