As far as vim goes I’ll say it’s not really necessary to learn but it’s a good tool to have in your belt. I once tried to print the manual to vim but noped out after about 100 pages. I’d say learn how to navigate, edit, copy-paste, find and replace text in vim. You could go all the way to do crazy things like running a CLI command from within vim and put the result into the editor but from a desktop environment it isn’t as helpful compared to simply having two terminal instances open.

Oh, hell yes! I’ve been looking for something almost exactly like this!

Only if you promise not to pay for it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/30/nx-s1-5557158/video-game-publisher-electronic-arts-going-private-in-a-deal-valued-at-55-billion

I’m mostly amazed that they discovered it. When I think of a good transition distro this is not what comes to mind. Must have been some kind of targeted ad campaign. Also there’s probably a ton of people that think no good software could possibly be free.