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[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 98 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure notepad.exe is actually below the kernel. Its load bearing.

[–] Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I can confirm it's not. One cool feature Windows does have is Windows sandbox, which lets you instantly start a blank Windows VM with no persistence. I was playing around with it yesterday and discovered it doesn't include notepad in the guest OS!

[–] CameronDev@programming.dev 33 points 5 days ago

I'll bet the hypervisor for that VM is notepad based /j

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

still kinda pissed they got rid of edit.com after win7....

[–] i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

They brought it back (well, a modern version) in Win 11.

It's available for Linux too!

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/edit/

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 5 points 4 days ago

Recently revived my old gaming PC, decided to put Bazzite on it. Was a bit surprised to see that sudoedit had a menubar and everything, used to it being vim or something. Got even more surprised when I found out it was made by fucking Microsoft. Yuck.

[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

is notepad.exe still around? I was sure they had replaced it with a new Microsoft Store app with copilot and ads.

[–] OliMoli2137@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

yes, and i think you can open it with win+r notepad

[–] bold_omi@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago

Yes, but they made it dumber.

[–] DeadDigger@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Notepad++ is in my opinion. It just should be at the side in mid air supporting a big lever under cmd