[bpye]

This article is arguing against vi, most systems install vim by default.

[OJFord]

Or further, I don't know about other distros, but Arch doesn't even package vi (in the main repos) - it's a package group (or some implementation I'm not sure off the top of my head) consisting of vim and vi-compat.

[wahern]

Most systems meaning Linux and macOS. FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD use nvi, and BusyBox (Alpine Linux core userland) uses tiny vi.c.

[bpye]

Very true! I spent a few months using OpenBSD and nvi as my primary environment, and actually ended up pretty productive with it.

[awesome_dude]

vim is so ubiquitous that most people don't realise vi is symlinked to vim pretty much across the board

[raverbashing]

Yeah

The exception is when you go do some work at server using a commercial unix and that is not how it's set up (in fact they don't even know about vim)

sigh but ok that story is dated and that behavior was already dated at that time

[gustavorg]

I was honestly embarrassed to admit that I have no idea what I've been using on my Ubuntu server for the last 10 years. The way to find out if I'm using vi or vim is to enter command mode (by pressing “:”) and run “version” I'm using vim ;)