Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol) (lemmy.ml)

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So I was setting up this new laptop, and after security updates I went on cleaning the trash through Powershell, and after removing all unwanted packages I was going to let a note on the desktop and there was no Notepad in the context menu... oops, I messed up I thought, I must have removed stuff I shouldn't, so just to be safe I did a factory reset and this time read very carefully every package before removing, and again no Notepad! And I notice there was no Paint nor Calculator either... so turn out new Win11 is shipped with Outlook, Maps, Solitaire Collection, People (whatever the hell that is), and even some IE, Zune and Skype legacy packages, but not with Notepad?! You actually have to download it from Microsoft Store... and now they all come with Copilot lol
Anyway, this sounds like a great opportunity to look for some FOSS alternatives!
What do you guys use and recommend?

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[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago

I saw that Notepad and Paint have integrated AI now. I didn't check if the same applies to Calculator, but I'm terribly afraid they might collect my Calculator history... far more shameful than any late‑night browsing history.

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, putting AI in Notepad is so stupid. The entire point of notepad is how lightweight it is.

[-] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

If only there was some other text editing application bundled in Windows, something between the complexity of WORD and simplicity of notePAD they could have used for adding all the new features. Shame that nothing like that exists. Oh well.