I was talking with a sysadmin once who intentionally removed nano and emacs from any system he was granted access to. His explanation was “if they can’t use vim I don’t want them on my machines”

If a sysadmin expected me to use vim for every minor config tweak, I wouldn’t want to be on their machines either.

Once you get the hang of it it’s just so much quicker for small and big tasks.

Check out vim adventures:

vim-adventures.com

Or just install vimtutor and try around. The basics are pretty simple, and the more advanced stuff infinitely helpful.