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TLDR: they didn't do anything except remove the copilot branding
idk why but the AI integration into Notepad makes me always laugh. Its a perfectly fine pre-installed text editor which just does its job to occasionally open a textfile or to eg quickly edit two lines in an .ini. Its biggest new feature in 20 or 30 years was the addition of tabs with Win11. But beyond that its almost useless. If you want to do anything more involved you better download one of the many alternatives with actual features to get shit done.
Its just so nonsensical to me to add AI to this class of product. Why? Same with paint. Paint is fine for what it is. But what the fuck am i supposed to do with AI in such a simplistic program? Its so stupid.
They are so so desperate to find a use case to this trash tech they dump billions into and ruined all their other software offerings for, with no outlook for profit yet.
Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.
I rage installed obsidian at work because of notepad. I wouldn't call it "perfectly fine" by any means.
Notepad is extremely slow and bloated. Obsidian loads faster and never loses scratch pad sessions (probably because they don't exist and are stored)
Obsidian is some massive electron app and runs better than notepad.
My company discontinued access to notepad++. Fortunately, that same week they added vs code. If stripped to the bare minimum it's a serviceably fast text editor. (FOSS has to be approved by IT)
Fair, maybe i should have worded it notepad was perfectly fine. Havent touched the win11 version for 2 years now.
Obsidian loads faster then notepad? Thats surprising, considering its a full blown markdown editor with plugins and tons of features.
But yeah, Microsoft stopped caring about windows speed and quality long time ago.
It's completely shocking to me, something is fatally wrong with native windows applications
I went to Settings > Apps > Advanced app settings > App execution aliases and turned Notepad off so I can start the old one with win+r "notepad".
I only use it as a clipboard, my .txt, .log and .csv are all bound to open with notepad++.
Just use kate
At home? Sure. On my company-owned, locked down, and corporate IT monitored work laptop? Not an option.
Rofl Microslop.
Users: We just want OS wide dark mode, AI not rammed down our throats, and non stop ads, and hopefully updates that don't break everything repeatedly.
MS: We hear you loud and clear! We're implementing AI into every single thing and the ADs will now be targeted based on information we've stol.....collected from you!
MS: I don't get it, why does everyone hate us?
I'm using Notepad++ on Windows
Just move to Linux at this point
To be fair, Notepad++ is an excellent piece of software, and I still miss it on Linux. Specifically, I miss the feature that can highlight the same text strings in different colors throughout a document. It's valuable when going through logs while troubleshooting something.
Can't this be done with Kate?
I feel like almost everything can be done with Kate if you find the right setting. I think yiu can get it to knit you a sweater!
I would love to, but I need to use solidworks for my job.
I could virtualize it, but I also need to use MS apps like Teams, and at that point I'd just be in the windows vm 100% of the time anyway.
But this doesn't prevent me from learning Linux at home!
There are wrappers to run teams directly on Linux. Works like charm.
That's pretty impressive since teams barely even runs on windows.
That's Notepad in the screenshot? I haven't used Windows in years, but I remember Notepad being the one that didn't do rich text. Did they just fold Wordpad into Notepad and add Copilot?
So now notepad is the worst of both worlds. It doesn't do rich text formatting but it does support some random markdown features. But only some, not all. So it's useless as a markdown editor.
Oh and it has tabs now and saves on exit, which fortunately you can turn off.
It doesn't do rtf. You can change the typeface but it applies to the whole document.
Wordpad is still available free, it's just not a default install.
Not really. WordPad supported rtf and things like embedded images. It has been obsoleted by MS.
Notepad doesn't do rtf, but they did add markdown support. Which I think is an ok feature. The bad part is the application now also includes AI and other unnecessary features and doesn't feel as snappy and fast as the old one.
Basically yes
Yep.
They paywalled basic-ass Wordpad a few years ago. Yet another reason why I started using LibreOffice.
What they did to notepad was the final straw for me.
As soon as marketing people say things like 'focussing on experiences' you realise they do not know how people use Windows.
I do recommend against things that suck, however
which is just about everything microslop touches
Same reason why somebody won't tell somebody else "you should use that specific bathroom stall" but they will "don't use that specific bathroom stall".
Thank god Kate has a Windows port.
Yeah, but that's using Linux with extra steps
Most of the KDE apps on Windows are broken in one way or another. Kate is the only one that works well in my experience. That being said, yes Linux is better.
I have to use Shitdows 11 for work and honestly, I want to perform a lobotomy on myself because each fucking time I want to close the Notepad, Shitdows doesn't allow me because "It have to sync", why the fuck should a notepad sync???
"See, we got rid of copilot"
