I’m pretty sure this is an attempt at humour. But minimal installations of the major distros do not have vim, in face I think Ubuntu makes nano the default $EDITOR (but I am not 100% on that)
But nothing I’ve seen makes me believe that vim isn’t available for this “platform”, nor do I think it’s inherently harmful to have a 500KiB program unused on a drive. (As this statement implies).
Most (if not all) Linux distros come with a “vi” (mandated by Posix) which is a plain, basic, feature-starved build of vim. I believe Posix having included vi as a requirement contributed to the status of vi as the omnipresent text editor.
But nothing I’ve seen makes me believe that vim isn’t available for this “platform”, nor do I think it’s inherently harmful to have a 500KiB program unused on a drive. (As this statement implies).