I use Geany on Linux, it is the closest replacement I have found. Until now.
Sublime text for me takes too long to load. It's also too heavy for what my use case is. I just want a simple text editor, not an entire development app.
I've always known Sublime text to load and run instantaneously unless working with enormous files that do not have newline characters.
Npp is great for editing text, no matter what kind of text file it is. It has a bunch of crazy plugins that are just mean for editing and converting text in files. For example, you can edit a column of text (rather than just a row). It's great for working on log files or anything computer generated that needs reformatting. Works ok as a code editor too but it's not an IDE (although it does come in handy when an IDE is not available). It's just another tool to have in your quiver.
I've never properly learned VIM, so I do enjoy the micro command line editor for this sort of stuff.