gedit is a text editor for the GNOME desktop environment, not to be confused with GNOME Text Editor (gnome-text-editor) released with GNOME 42

gedit is the default text editor included with Ubuntu 22.04 and older versions of Ubuntu.

gedit is a general-purpose text editor.

The first goal of gedit is to be easy to use, with a simple interface by default. More advanced features are available by enabling plugins.

Source: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit

Ubuntu 22.10 ships with GNOME's new text editor app called, confusingly for this sentence, Text Editor. See