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[-] underthesign@lemmy.world 95 points 5 days ago

Notepad++ and never look back.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago
[-] tostiman@sh.itjust.works 41 points 5 days ago
[-] piracysails@lemm.ee 16 points 5 days ago

Or Kwrite of you want something simple.

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[-] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You will use vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are

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[-] notous@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

just use geany or something else..u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++

[-] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 6 points 5 days ago

Kakoune is there for you

[-] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago
[-] daddy32@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won't be exactly integrated experience, but it works.

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[-] riverSpirit@thelemmy.club 81 points 5 days ago

Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because it’s fast and no bloat.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 43 points 5 days ago
[-] MimicJar@lemmy.world 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If Notepad is getting AI text editing then it's as good as dead too.

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 6 points 5 days ago

Maybe for you..

[-] WagnasT@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

i use notepad to paste garbage that needs the formatting stripped out, they better not fuck that up.

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I've been using Notepads (yes with an extra S) instead of Notepad for ages now and it's a pretty good and fast option with a nice modern design even before MS changed up Notepad.

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[-] metaStatic@kbin.earth 60 points 5 days ago

I'm all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago

what do you do if you need to run an app thats windows exclusive? wine?

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

My solution is to not run that app.

The only Windows-only stuff I have run in the last 15+ years of using Linux are games, and then I just pick one that works out of the box on Steam for Linux. The transition period was rough, but now I just don't even consider what Windows-only software exists and stick to Linux software, and I've solved every problem I've had so far.

If you really need something, either WINE or a VM works. I actually have a separate drive on my desktop with Windows installed, but I haven't needed to boot up Windows in years. But it's there if I absolutely need it.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago
[-] a2part2@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

So do I. It sits in its vm jail and does its job, or I roll back the snapshot

If so, then you either need WINE, a VM, or dual boot.

[-] WagnasT@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago

not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It's really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

How well does a windows vm run in linux? Does it have hardware acceleration?
Asking because i need something to run photoshop and lightroom, which both need hardware acceleration :/

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 6 points 5 days ago

It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn't free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.

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[-] trespasser69@lemmy.world 47 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.

Keep going M$! You're the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍

[-] dukatos@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

They own Linux, too. Just wait for systemd-copilot.

[-] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

They dont own it, they just own seats at the foundation table and thats not even 50% of the seats :p

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago

Even if they owned the whole LF, the Linux Foundation does not develop systemd lol

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[-] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 23 points 5 days ago

Jesus christ.

[-] Lila_Uraraka 31 points 5 days ago

Just use KDE's Kate, it's so much better in every way

[-] AsudoxDev@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago

maybe not kate but kwrite. kate is a code editor

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[-] Zink@programming.dev 18 points 5 days ago

Is nothing sacred?

At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).

And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.

And most Linux distributions have a simple text editor shipped with their desktop environment (i.e. Kate or GNOME Text Editor).

I use vim, but there are simpler editors if you want something CLI, like nano or pico.

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[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 days ago

I predicted you wanted to multiply your answer by 1.2x. No need to thank me!!

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

[-] MurrayL@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.

The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).

[-] lapping6596@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Maybe windows should just fully embrace containers for as much backwards compatibility as possible.

https://github.com/dockur/windows

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 10 points 5 days ago

Because windows is a fucking mess 😂

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[-] Cyber@feddit.uk 8 points 5 days ago

I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90's that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic... or at least we created it on a training course...

So, I'm surprised that anyone's done anything with it.

It's probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 15 points 5 days ago

I will only use this if it uses Clippy's animations.

Thats... what this is, right?

Clippy 3.0?

[-] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!

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[-] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!

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