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.
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."
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On a website which has AI slop wondering what's wrong with AI unenthusiasts. Guess the picture is just icing on the get-that-icky-AI-drool-off-of-me cake
I'm speechless. Notepad was essentially the last thing left pure.
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++.
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
They've come a long way in 20 years for sure.
I just decided to leave Microsoft alone 20 years ago.
Second best time is today!
Self-employed?
Plenty of jobs don't need to have Microsoft involved. Hell, plenty of computer-based jobs don't need Microsoft at all, and will be done worse with their products around
How would you get around not using Teams for a Teams meeting?
Don't know about anyone else, but I just use the web version of Teams.
You don't have teams meetings. There are alternatives that don't require you to lock in in their infrastructure.
I'm aware, but if my boss is requiring me to join a Teams meeting, I'm not in much of a position to impose on him and others being requested to join the meeting, sometimes in the dozens and hundreds, to have the meeting over a different program instead.
And yet, it's not a universal experience, even though you have one
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.
Yeah, I've used it. If I'm editing code I use Visual Studio since Unity opens scripts in that. If I'm just looking at text I want my editor as simple as possible.
Join Team Linux!
I have a machine with Ubuntu. Most of my hobby stuff is on W7/W10 machines. My familiarity with Windows commands far exceeds my familiarity with Linux commands.
Then you can learn
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.
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
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