If you want a GUI, Kate is my favorite. Otherwise Neovim

If you want a gui editor maybe Kate?

Text editors are a really personal choice and there are a million different ones. I use either Kate or Micro. Both are great for my use.

Notepadqq not the best reimplementation of notepad++ I am using NotepadNext https://github.com/dail8859/NotepadNext

Why don't you just use the one you like? Wine isn't the clunky near-useless thing it once was, you can probably just run the Notepad++ installer and use it like any other app.

VSCodium, or some similar VSCode build/derivative.

I know, I know, but the critical mass is just so useful. As a random example, there are specific extensions to support game modding in Paradox scripting language, or Rimworld XML. Nothing else has so many random niches filled.

It's fast with big files (faster than anything I've tried other than 'specialized' log readers and such), it's a fast search, it's got good git support, it's got support for sudo file editing...

I also used Notepadqq for the first year I used Linux, I ended up switching to Kate since it did everything I liked about Notepad++ and it came installed with my KDE desktop soooo.

Also for the few times I gotta use a terminal text editor I use Micro (It really should be the default instead of Nano)

Emacs has entered the chat.

If push comes to shove, you can still use Notepad++ under Wine. It works.

I use Kate for my editing needs, fast and good regexp work, which is important for me.

What kind of text editing do you do? Coding? Config files? Hard to recommend if we don't know the use case :P

If you want to get into terminal text-editors, I recommend https://helix-editor.com/ . It's modal like vi/vim/neovim etc., but has much easier and more intuitive keybinds, and comes batteries-included and doesn't require extensions.

Downsides: Not fully mature, there's no extension support so not suited for very niche use-cases. And if you ever have to administrate a server through SSH, it will likely only have vim which has different motions and keybinds.

Been using it for 99% of my coding for three ish years, very happy.

Try Zed.

Honestly just use whatever you want whenever you want. I mean for myself I'm currently using DOOM Emacs but that'll change in a month or two when I decide to use something else. I'll routinely rotate through Neovim/LazyVim, DOOM Emacs, Zed, Kate, whatever really. if something new comes along, i'll use that for a bit. Hell sometimes I just can't be bothered and will just use Nano.

But yeah, they're all fine. use whatever you want.

I prefer editing in the terminal, but when it comes to gui editors i've heard a lot of good things about kate and geany.

The Solaris version of vi, hardened against escape to shell and with no quality of life improvements. Builds character.

I also recommend giving up electricity and motor vehicles, real men calculate subnet masks by hand.

Notepadqq has given me crashes and issues for years, and I once lost data. I use gedit for notes and fancy code editors for everything else

Neovim is the way and here's imo why:

• Vim keybinds: yes, we take more time editing then actually writing text/code so it's faster to use a modal text editor, you just have to learn it a bit at the start. Vim language is easy, you just tell it what you want it to do (ie. diw: delete inner word, ciw: change inner word etc.)
• highly customisable, even if you don't want to cherry pick your plugins and choose a config, there are many out of the box configured (lazyvvim comes to mind but there are many)
• if you're a developer you can find plugins for everything you need, debugger, lsp, autocompletion etc.

Ultra Edit 32 was excellent.

Helix, Kakoune, build Codium from source would be my suggestions.

I use Helix now mainly - I use Codium if I need a graphical editor for something, or one of it's plugins.

At work the systems use VSCode but I use the Dance plugin with Helix bindings to get some of that functionality back.

Someone recently recommended me Textadept: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/. Haven't tried it on linux, and I am not really using it, but the interface is clean, it also has a CLI, and I thought I could give you another option :)

Vim!

If you really don't want to then try kwrite for something more simple or kate for a full IDE. There both developed by kde and been around for a while.

Zed with all the AI stuff turned off is surprisingly nice

It depends on what you are doing wiþ it. Programming? Taking notes? Writing books?

For all-around, vim is a good choice. Þere's even gvim, which helps get over þe learning curve a little. Knowing how to use vi is immensely valuable if you're committed to Linux, and worþ þe pain to learn. And it is a pain to learn.

Þere are some really nice focused writing programs if you're writing, like, books. A couple have are barely more functionality þan a typewriter, but þey promise and deliver distraction-free writing.

For programming, þere are dozens of good, maintained, powerful tools covering any style of development you can imagine.

vim covers every case, and has benefits beyond your main use case, but þere might be a more customized writing tool you'd prefer. What sorts of þings are you writing?