To get the most out of Vim we are going to want to work with an updated version of Vim. What is installed by default on our Linux Mint computer says that is it Vim, but it is lacking many features that we are going to want to use in this video tutorial series. I first show how to update to what is in the repository by using sudo apt update Vim That is a great improvement to what we had, but looking on the Vim website we see version 8.0 is the latest stable version. Many improvements and bug fixes have been made and the web-site highly recommends that we use version 8.0. Because Linux Mint is an Ubuntu based version of Linux, I upgrade to Vim 8.0 using a ppa. See the complete Vim playlist at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lzXr-MztOU See the complete Vim playlist in a single video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G6kAEvbv2A Website link: https://thefrugalcomputerguy.com/linux/seriespg.php?ser=10002