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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[-] felixwhynot@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

I use Vim, actually

[-] HyonoKo@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Same.

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[-] benjaminb@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 months ago

After taking a look at the pictures of the article, I noticed “requires AI credits”. Credits?! What is this now? Some shitty mobile game? Really, Microsoft isn’t ashamed of anything anymore…

I mean, I don’t know about Microsoft and windows, so maybe this is different, but the name sounds crazy!

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[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 months ago

!linux@programming.dev could use more folks!

[-] lengau@midwest.social 9 points 3 months ago

Notepad has long been a testbed for new technology in Windows. This isn't just a sign of enshittification, it's a warning that they want to do more.

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[-] nadram@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ragebait. Notepad is still free. If you want to use Rewrite, then you pay for that.

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[-] kubica@fedia.io 8 points 3 months ago

The fact that they choose to mess with Notepad is more telling than the value it has given the alternatives.

[-] mfat@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Time to try my newly-released text editor lol.

[-] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Good thing whenever I set up Windows, Notepad is one of the things I nuke, using Geany to replace it.

This is a bad sign if MS gets emboldened and starts paywalling basic OS functionality at some point in the future, though.

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 months ago

https://www.sublimetext.com/

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago

Notepad++ is my text editor of choice as someone who just edits the occasional file. I'm not a programmer or anything, but it's nice to have those autocomplete and syntax highlighting features for config files. Helps me keep track of stuff better when editing.

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[-] cupcakezealot 5 points 3 months ago

isn't the paywall for notepad buying windows and a computer?

[-] joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

They could've added this to wordpad if they didn't kill it.

[-] PanArab@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I have always been partial to gedit, kate aint bad either.

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[-] Xed@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I wouldn’t be surprised if Apple does something like this too at some point in the future

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