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Windows 11’s Notepad continues to get Copilot-powered AI features – a handy addition to a tool whose main appeal has always been simplicity and minimalism. Not all users are happy, however, with some saying AI features are overkill.
The whole purpose of Notepad is to open up a text file QUICKLY. Who the fuck cares about AI in this thing?
Who the fuck cares about AI in this thing?
I assume their team is called something like "strategic data partnerships for targeted ad delivery".
Every word is more disgusting than the previous in that title. Ew. Lol
You can leave at any time. You don't have to be in an abusive relationship with your operating system.
Microsoft seem to have very tight grip on the corporate world. It's getting better, but still.
I left a company once because they started switching to Microsoft infrastructure and that just got miserable. But I'm a privileged in that regard, a lot of people can't do that
No user said, "Leave it alone." Not a single one. Universally from the office, to the classroom, to the monastery, every single person said, "Leave it the fuck alone."
Yet another reason I've made NotePad++ my go-to editor. Better for all the crashlogs and stuff I mess with.
Damn, notepad++... I remember feeling so sad that there wasn't a Linux version back when I ditched Windows.
Baffles me that this did not get a wildly successful native Linux version in all those years, but it's probably too late now with VSCode and all the NeoVim fans.
From the Notepad++ home page:
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API
Trying to port it to other platforms is thus nonsensical. It would have to be a ground-up rewrite without the Windows API dependency. And there are indeed various other projects for Linux and other platforms that pretty much replicate its functionality, but they're by definition not going to be Notepad++.
Geany might be your thing.
Or Kate, which funny enough now runs on windows
Many KDE apps run on Windows. Okular is the best PDF viewer for the entire platform.
KDE's Kate can be configured for similar functionality akin to NotePad++
I've found that the basic editors are all good. Mouse, Gedit, Kate, they all work wonderfully
I just decided to leave Microsoft alone 20 years ago.
Second best time is today!
I'm speechless. Notepad was essentially the last thing left pure.
I really want AI in my.....
You want AI in your penis? Kid? Wife?
oh god i know what they're planning....they're going to force AI slop into the base model and charge you extra to move up to premium, where it's just a regular fucking text editor, lmao
I hope they put AI into my sneakers, lightbulbs, clocks...every fucking thing that doesn't need it.
Guess I'll just keep using old versions lol
Notepad ++
It's not an old Version but what windows notepad shouldve been twenty years ago
FAVORITE NOTEPAD++ PLUGIN - GO!
I like Compare and JSON Parser - use them everyday.
a handy addition
[Citation needed]
It was already ruined when they modernized it. Now they are just pissing on it's corpse.
Copilot has been in Notepad, though. It can be disabled in Settings. I also disabled Markdown — I don't need it. I just use Notepad as like a scratch pad, it's a bit more versatile than Sticky Notes (which I also use).
Uninstall new notepad.
Install Notepad (classic).
Ezpz. Although i wonder how long that'll last. My manager got upset i wasnt using the new notepad because of its features.
I explained np++ is for things that last more than a day. Notepad classic is for thoughts i dont care about when i shut down.
My manager got upset i wasnt using the new notepad because of its features.
Dang. They sound un-fun.
They also are against using mspaint as a clipping/editing tool (for very basic things mind you so there's no reason anything more than mspaint is needed)
And i wont take blashpemy against mspaint. Hes not a very fun guy indeed lol.
Due to CAD/CAM and the nature of my industry, I'm stuck with windows on my daily driver for the foreseeable future. (Been using Linux since Ubuntu was new, have multiple servers and old chromebooks running different flavors.)
I've been putting off dealing with this. Goatfucking bullshit pain in my dick.
Can I pretty please get recommendations on upgrading to 11 and unfucking it as much as possible?
I recommend you getting a second pc with an gpu and install linux on your main one. Then get moonlight and connect to the windows one with it. Its a in-house streaming solution like this cloud gaming stuff. But also for just for normal usage. Like remote desktop but actually so fast you forget that its remote. Thats what iam doing for these big windows only software situations.
I'm not willing to spend the money it would cost to duplicate my rig right now. That also throws the same problem on a different machine.
I'm just going to have to neuter the installation I have after an upgrade. I need to figure out if there is anything I should do to it while it's still on 10.