It's easier to disable all the garbage than remove the garbage?
I prefer to use Windows 10 and Linux. Seriously!
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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Lol, just today i noticed Copilot was on notepad, and rushed to disable that thing. Fuck Microsoft
Someone made a notepad++ package that runs through Wine, it's on snap. Haven't tried it though.
sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
notepadqq is the "fan-made" linux version of notepad++ for linux
Sublime is pretty popular too but i dont like it
For those who want to stick with Windows, Notepad++ is far superior anyway.
Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn't really have a full featured native Linux alternative (as of my last deep search around June 2025).
Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn’t really have a full featured native Linux alternative
Geany and Notepad++ are built on the same text editing component.
I already use geany as my main DE! It's got a lot of great features, but it's not really a notepad app.
Notepad++ sits at an odd place. It's heavier than Vim or Emacs. It's not as feature-rich as some IDEs. That's why it failed in Linux where alternatives are many.
CudaText is pretty good replacement for notepad++
Never heard of it, so now I will take a look. Thanks for sharing.
How's Notepad++ compare to VS Code (or VSCodium) they seem pretty similar
Notepad++ is, at its heart, a text editor.
It's lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.
You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn't it's main use.
VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.
I'm still looking for a Linux replacement with syntax highlighting like Notepad++. Kate is good, even better performance, but no UI for highlighting. The coding for syntax is way over my head from what I saw.
I've recently switched from np++ to Sublime for some non-standard issues -- I would say that could be closer in performance & extensibility to Vim/Emacs; though limited to GUI and non-FOSS of course.
No, let them keep pushing copilot everywhere.
Gmail has started injecting a fat "Suggestions for responding to emails" feature into my composition space. Really fucking annoying when you're trying to type something out on a phone. No idea how to begin disabling it, I couldn't find configurations anywhere in the settings.
I've had this email address for over 20 years. Not looking forward to changing it. But enshitification won't stop.
Thunderbird is ready to welcome you back. It never left. Email belongs in a dedicated apllication, not a web frontend
Anywhere they can record user input is considered fair game. They give not a smidge of care about user privacy at all
Because Linux is still an enormous hurdle for a lot of people, and completely incompatible with lots of proprietary hardware people actually need.
Stop pretending like you don't understand why 98% of PC users still choose Windows. I'm not one of them, but let's not delude ourselves, it is tiring.
98% of Windows users, use windows because that’s what the OS that came with the computer they could afford.
98% of windows users probably don’t know what version they are on or even what windows is
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Are 98% of PC users using proprietary hardware incompatible with Linux? That would be pretty crazy, considering that that list of hardware is miniscule.
Like, I get where you're coming from, Linux isn't a 100% perfect drop in replacement for Windows that covers every single scenario and edge case. But it's never going to be that, and I don't think it needs to be that. It's still good enough to recommend over Windows. That hurdle won't get any shorter if people don't at least try using it.
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Notepad was the only thing I liked about windows 11.
Getting maybe 20% of the features of Notepad++ standard was nice out of the box. For a fleeting moment, I almost kept it as my default.
Kate is a thousand times better than Notepad and Notepad++
I actually prefer having multiple windows (not split-view) so I can review things side by side. KATE removed the ability to open multiple instances last time I needed to use an editor. So, it's kwrite on Linux and notepad++ in windows.
Vim
: set scrollbind
Many people have a sort of learned helplessness. They don't really know computer fundamentals, they get scared and stressed so they stop thinking, and then they don't want to deal with it.
People aren't rational. They're emotional.
This take might make you feel a sense of superiority, but it's a braindead take. It's not "learned helplessness", it's simple convenience.
It's convenient for the average user to not have to know computer fundamentals. It's also convenient for users of any tech proficiency to be able to assume that the vast majority of programs will run on their OS with no fiddling required.
To the overwhelming majority of users, their PC is a tool to run programs. Convenience is king in that use-case, because any amount of time fiddling with the tool or any number of situations in which the tool doesn't work outweighs the benefits in any other metric for the average person.
I dunno, a lot of the people in my life that aren't tech savvy are inconvenienced. The ads pop up and block stuff. But they don't know how to do anything about it.
I guess it's easier to just do nothing and suffer than learn what adblock is. It's easier to use the shitty defaults.
You need to look at it from their perspective when weighing the inconvenience. You know how to quickly install an adblocker, so it looks like the inconvenience of doing that would be small. But they don't know how to install an adblocker. And they don't have the skills to learn how to install an ablocker. They might not even know about the existence of adblockers.
The thing you need to weigh is the inconvenience of them putting in the effort to become tech savvy. That's a big inconvenience. So, the inconvenience of dealing with ads and whatnot looks much smaller from their perspective.
Also, it's worth noting that there are plenty of Windows users who are tech savvy. There is a lot of convenience that comes from using the dominant OS even if you have the proficiency to use others.
The thing you need to weigh is the inconvenience of them putting in the effort to become tech savvy. That’s a big inconvenience. So, the inconvenience of dealing with ads and whatnot looks much smaller from their perspective.
Yeah, I can follow the train of thought. They don't know that like an hour of reading now will save them decades of pain, I guess.
Like, there's degrees. Learning how to compile Firefox from source with custom changes is way more work than "search: how do I get rid of ads? Search: best adblocker. Click install on ublock."
Which brings me back to what I was trying to say earlier. People imagine dealing with these problems is way harder than it actually is, so they don't even look.
Something like this is coming up at work. They're like "oh it's going to be like weeks of work to get a linter for our code" and I'm like "it's fifteen minutes please just let me help you".
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Remember, Windows will install updates without user intervention. If you remove things, it just puts them back.
I think you mean fetch updates.
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