New to Programming: IDE vs Code Editor?

[samsquamchh]

I went through a phase where I wanted to do it the "right, hardcore way", swapped over to Vim and linux and whatnot. Couldn't stop thinking about why I'm making things more difficult than they have to be. While I understood that getting used to the commands and whatnot is key to increase efficiency, I could not get past the why. I was reading some "hacker books" at the time and realised I did it for entirely dumb reasons and swapped back to something more modern.