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?
Just use kate
I think that the major selling point of Notepad is that it’s installed everywhere already.
Weird, Notepad is not installed in my computer. Hmm.
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.
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
TLDR: they didn’t do anything except remove the copilot branding
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.
What they did to notepad was the final straw for me.
Yep.
They paywalled basic-ass Wordpad a few years ago. Yet another reason why I started using LibreOffice.
I’m using Notepad++ on Windows
I can’t even remember using anything else. Certainly not Notepad.
Who is still using Windows at this point, lol?
About 90% of PC users. So yeah, almost nobody.
Well… That’s their own fault.
Just think of it that way: who would you have to feel superior to, if it wasn’t for them?
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”.
Yeah that’s the sort of thing people say when they know they’ll be working somewhere else within a year.
Microsoft thinks it’s a very simple question, it has only two answers, you answer simply yes or ask me again in three days. That’s not rapey at all.
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++.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???
Thats your company. Notpad doesnt sync for the rest of us
Nah, that’s probably because I have to use a Microsoft account and sync that stupid notepad with my Microsoft account, but why would someone (in general, not this company) would like to sync their notes between devices? Why is so hard to Microsoft to just leave a plain .txt in some directory instead of uploading it to the cloud? And yeah, I know is to sell your data
because I have to use a Microsoft account
You don’t.
They might if it’s for work. Idk. I don’t work there.
Windows is pretty bad and their management are soulless husks.
They could rip out all the AI garbage and I wouldn’t trust that they learned anything. Fuck 'em.
Linux is free and meet all my needs.
“hey, everyone hates Copilot! Let’s change its name to something else!”
