 Over the years I have given a lot of guff to those of you who use Nano. I have talked a lot of smack, some trash talk, some downright bullying probably. I've been very elitist when it comes to them and my love of them and all things them and I've made videos about this love of them many many times over the course of the last three years. Arrogance is probably the best word to describe it. I freely admit that I'm a bit of a Vim fanboy, just a small teeny schmidge of a Vim fanboy and that's a problem. Okay it is definitely a problem and I realized that this was a problem in my video a couple days ago where I was doing a speed run of Polybar and i3 and kitty and stuff like that and in that video I spent about three minutes trying to figure out how to use Nano. Okay now in that video I made a comment something on the lines of is this what people don't know how to use Vim? Is this how they feel when they get into Vim and don't know how to exit it? Because I had no clue what I was doing even though there are instructions right there at the bottom those are way too I mean instructions are for other people I guess I don't know. The point is is that I was downright lost I had no clue what I was doing now I know the basics of Nano. I know how to get out of a you know save a file and stuff I've gotten that far but there is more to Nano than just learning how to exit it just like there's more to Vim than learning how to colon WQ right so I'm going to challenge myself I've challenged myself to things in the past on this channel and I think that that's one of the things that I like to do is kind of broaden my horizons because you can't have the arrogance of liking something so much that you proselytize it over and over again and shout it from the worst tops you can't be that person unless you've also tried the alternatives and lived in the alternatives you can't criticize something unless you've used it extensively so for the next month I'm uninstalling Neo Vim I'm uninstalling Vim and I'm going to use Nano for the next month exclusively on my main machine and on my laptop and on my standing desk there's gonna be no Vim whatsoever for the next month if I can succeed in the challenge well so I mean I think this is going to probably be more challenging than the the red core challenge but we'll see obviously you can tell I think that because I'm only doing it for a month and not six months that would be just that sounds like torture that was hyperbole but you get the idea you know so anyways I'm gonna use Nano for the next month exclusively and I'm gonna kind of report back on my findings so there's gonna be two more videos in this series I'm not gonna overload you on Nano videos there's gonna be one on customizing Nano because believe it or not Nano does have a configuration file who knew this I mean seriously I just figured Nano was Nano it has options what kind of options can Nano have apparently it has it has options so we're gonna find out what those options are together I'll make a video on that and then at the end of the month if I'm still using Nano I will do a wrap-up video talking about my experiences and I will be as objective as I possibly can I think I'll be able to be more objective after having used Nano for a little while because I'll have both positive and negative things to say about it and I'll have actually have used it for a long period of time which I haven't done up until this point like I've never actually used Nano for a long period of time yes I've used it you know as one off when Vem or Vi or any of them haven't been installed but I've never actually lived in it to do my work and this is gonna be big for me because I do a lot of my work inside of Vem I write all of my stuff I'm not a writer by trade so it's going to be a very interesting experience we'll see how it goes I'm expecting to fail within the first three days if I make it past the three-day mark I probably will be able to make it to full month if I'm gonna fail will be in the next three days so we'll see how it goes anyways that's it for this video I join I if you are a Vem user if you're a fellow Vem user I implore you to take this challenge with me so that I don't do it alone there is a channel on my Discord server which will be called the challenges channel from now on and you can come join us there and we'll talk about this if you are a Nano user I implore you to go the other direction abandon your beloved Nano and try Vem for the next 30 days see how it goes just let you know quitting very easy colon WQ we'll get you out of them there are many other ways of closing and quitting Vem you'll be able to discover the discover those on your own the documentation is fantastic it's better than Nano I don't know if that's true and I just wanted to this is my last day of bad mouthing Nano I had to get something out of my system anyways that's it for this video join the challenge if you dare leave a comment in the comment section below if you're gonna join let me know you can follow me on Masters on our Odyssey those links will be in the video description you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast you can support me on YouTube or libera paid those links to be in the video description as well thanks everybody who does support me on patreon YouTube you guys are all absolutely amazing without you the chance was not being we're near where it is right now so thank you so very very much for your support I truly do appreciate you guys are all just so good you guys are just absolutely amazing thank you so much for your support thanks everybody for watching and I'll see you next time