For me personally, I was using Notepad++, but the enshitification of notepad, to me, was just the last straw. It was another thing in Windows becoming worse, & there was no sign of the enshittification stopping, so I finally jumped ship & switched to Linux.
It sucks that the user has to take steps to clean this crap out of Windows, but it CAN be done and it’s not THAT different from clearing out all the bloatware vendors like HP used to install by default.
If you can’t figure out these basic configurations in Windows, switching to Linux will not be an option for you. You’ll have no hope of figuring out Linux settings.
None of this is relevant. Whether or not I could or couldn’t disable copilot in notepad would have had no effect on me as I didn’t use the app. You missed the point entirely. The enshittification of software by a company signals a shift in the company’s priorities. A shift I’m not willing to support. I’m not saying Linux is for everyone, but it also isn’t as difficult to operate as many people like to make it out to be, especially the more popular distros. And with the progress it has made over the last few years with regard to gaming, I think a lot more people would be happier with Linux than Windows.
Besides that fact, my biggest issue with windows is forced updates.
Upset about notepad, so downloaded a bunch of random software that has nothing to do with editing text files?
Not A tipping point but several. They’ve been upset about a lot of things but this was the last straw.
Thought the same thing, nothing wrong with Libre Office, but why not Notepad++?
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/
For me personally, I was using Notepad++, but the enshitification of notepad, to me, was just the last straw. It was another thing in Windows becoming worse, & there was no sign of the enshittification stopping, so I finally jumped ship & switched to Linux.
I think a lot of “Windows 11 sucks!” is kind of overblown. For example:
Have an issue with Co-Pilot in Notepad? Click the gear in the upper right hand corner, scroll down, “Copilot - Off”.
Kind of like when they tried to force Cortana on everyone in Windows 10… super easy to disable, enough people did that, then it got removed.
https://www.lifewire.com/turn-off-cortana-in-windows-10-4165920#toc-how-to-disable-cortana-temporarily
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/cortana-will-no-longer-launch-in-windows-11/641755e7-e8e7-4f4e-ad0a-75d69cabae5f
It sucks that the user has to take steps to clean this crap out of Windows, but it CAN be done and it’s not THAT different from clearing out all the bloatware vendors like HP used to install by default.
For example:
“My start menu is full of advertising!”
So, turn it off.
“I keep getting ads as notifications!”
(They really want people buying Xbox stuff)
Turn that off too:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/notifications-and-do-not-disturb-in-windows-feeca47f-0baf-5680-16f0-8801db1a8466
If you can’t figure out these basic configurations in Windows, switching to Linux will not be an option for you. You’ll have no hope of figuring out Linux settings.
Operating Linux isn’t an issue for me.
None of this is relevant. Whether or not I could or couldn’t disable copilot in notepad would have had no effect on me as I didn’t use the app. You missed the point entirely. The enshittification of software by a company signals a shift in the company’s priorities. A shift I’m not willing to support. I’m not saying Linux is for everyone, but it also isn’t as difficult to operate as many people like to make it out to be, especially the more popular distros. And with the progress it has made over the last few years with regard to gaming, I think a lot more people would be happier with Linux than Windows.
Besides that fact, my biggest issue with windows is forced updates.
You can get gedit for Windows.