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TLDR: they didn't do anything except remove the copilot branding
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?
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.
They are so so desperate to find a use case to this trash tech they dump billions into and ruined all their other software offerings for, with no outlook for profit yet.
Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.
I believe there are three products called Outlook, actually
Wait, what's the third?
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.
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
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
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?
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.
Basically yes
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++.
Are you aware of the "Multiple Clipboard" feature? Which is a deceptively simple productivity boost, a game-changer, a hidden gem in a sea of dark Windows patterns?
I wasn't, no. Seems like it can be useful but I'm probably gonna keep using notepad instead of risking having sensitive data saved in the clipboard history. :)
They fix the security flaws with Notepad ++ yet?
The notepad++ update infrastructure is secure now, yeah. Not that I ever did the in app updates tbh.
I use winget for everything that I can. Thanks!
this is the way
Naa, linux is the way.
sorry, not all of us are independently wealthy. some of us have to work for other people who require m$.
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.
Thank god Kate has a Windows port.
Is that like my friend Anna who has an archive?
You know Anna too?
Yeah, but that's using Linux with extra steps
Why would you use windows
Honestly, just to experiment with it. I like to see what it can do. Also, because HD-DVD ripping is broken in MakeMKV on Linux. I use Linux for 99℅ of my computing tasks. My main system runs CachyOS and I have been using Linux as my daily driver for around six years. I don't trust Windows to do most things.
I'm using Notepad++ on Windows
Just move to Linux at this point
I would love to, but I need to use solidworks for my job.
I could virtualize it, but I also need to use MS apps like Teams, and at that point I'd just be in the windows vm 100% of the time anyway.
But this doesn't prevent me from learning Linux at home!
There are wrappers to run teams directly on Linux. Works like charm.
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.
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