If you like working with LibreOffice but you hate printing a LibreOffice document from MS Office just save your document as pdf and you will be able to print this from any Windows/Mac/Linux computer.
A good alternative to Notepad++ is SublimeText 2.
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Or Gedit, which has a very good amount of plug-ins that allow you to configure it the way you want. He might even want to start using Vim right in the terminal.
Gedit is a good and free alternative, also multiplatform. I doubt a guy that goes all the way to install Wine just to use his favorite (mouse driven) text editor will be comfortable in VIM (I know you can use the mouse in VIM, but it was designed for extensive keyboard usage).
Good point. Though writing code goes smoother when you don't need to use the mouse (IMO).
Sublime costs $70 whereas Notepad++ is free.
They also seem to take a different philosophy in terms of the UI. Notepad++ is full of dialog boxes with tons of options whereas sublime seems to rely more on plugins and keyboard shortcuts etc for most of it's functionality.
Took me a while of using it to find out how powerful ST2 is.
SublimeText is a great choice... I especially like tools that are multiplatform. I use Thunderbird as my mail client for just that reason.
or Kate