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this post was submitted on 23 Apr 2025
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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.
I've performed every one of those steps (and a few reg edits besides after the second week of repeated uninstalls and turning off copilot in apps and turning off Edge as a default by going through literally every file type and removing it as a default for everything possible (a few .edge_ files not possible to change). Copilot is back in my apps list and startup files with every boot. W11Pro, originally I installed from lenovo recovery media but reinstalled from recovery media created from the MS download ISO of the major update to W11 a few weeks ago. Problem continues
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-uninstall-copilot-i-dont-want-to-disable-it/b301b77d-b879-4433-9979-f8795805e9f1
You can get gedit for Windows.