I’ve always had the idea that EDITOR should be on the same level as the login shell on nix systems. Choose your shell and your editor when creating your account, or don’t complain about the defaults
I agree but I’ve found that a lot of users don’t know they can set EDITOR in their shell profile – or that the `chsh` command exists to let them change their login shell.
Yeah the “create your account” part of the install should expose a few more settings such as the above, or perhaps a more generic “user account settings” pane in the major DEs to show the most common environment configurations for user accounts
I am one of those that didn't know chsh was a thing - thanks for the tip!