VIM is a great tool and it is already there on Linux. I used Notepad when I began my journey, then moved to Notepad++, on my Mac it was sublime. About a year ago I have moved to Atom both on Windows and on Linux. It was almost perfect. However, when I was installing SSL certificate for the first time it took me very long, too long. I realised that text encoding on Atom was wrong and then I got the errors. Moved to VIM and done the job in 5 minutes.