Question

The question is self explanatory, but I haven’t found a single resource that explains what the difference is after an hour of searching. After poking around a little bit in both, it appears that gVim and gVim easy are identical.

Answer 1

gVim Easy is started and locked in insert-mode (every character you type is printed like a simple notepad).

Standard gVim starts in normal mode and you have to toggle between normal/insert like all other vim.

From help:

    Easy mode.  Implied for |evim| and |eview|.  Starts with
    'insertmode' set and behaves like a click-and-type editor.
    This sources the script $VIMRUNTIME/evim.vim.  Mappings are
    set up to work like most click-and-type editors, see
    |evim-keys|.  The GUI is started when available.
    {not in Vi}