Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.

LibreOffice is also available as a Flatpak:

• https://flathub.org/apps/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice

Outside of that. And keeping in mind WordPad was a standalone rich text editor:

Kate is pretty swell too:

• https://apps.kde.org/kate/

Or slim down to Kwrite:

• https://apps.kde.org/kwrite/

I myself am also mostly writing in markdown on Obsidian:

• https://obsidian.md/
• https://flathub.org/apps/md.obsidian.Obsidian

Notepad++, is not really meant to be a replacement to WordPad.

Forgot Works ever existed! That takes me back. So glad they killed that mess.

Haha I never understood why they had two office suites.

I'm trying to use AbiWord when possible, but since it supports DOCX, I use it for DOCX, and a heavy DOCX file opened in AbiWord means lots of CPU usage all the time it's opened, while LibreOffice doesn't have that problem.

Maybe Ted fits more as a WordPad replacement.

I only use it to play games, mainly a heavily modded Skyrim. It's just too much of a pain in the ass to get MO2 to launch the Linux version of Steam so that I can use Proton to launch SKSE. I finally managed to get it to work once and was getting at 15 FPS on my RTX 3070.

I've been using for the last 2 years becuase I don't know how to exit it.

Doom emacs is superior

In the 90s, there was no LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and Word was expensive. It did rich text WYSIWYG formatting for free. Was never great, but it was functional.

Not much point to it anymore, though.

It was useful back in Windows 98 when Notepad wouldn't open anything bigger than 64KB.

That's about the last time I used it.

For all intents and purposes it was free word

I haven't really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.

Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn't be arsed to upload the file to Google docs

I guess it will be missed for that

Just use notepad++?

They've already touched it. It has a new UI, new features, and has crashed on me multiple times. They're about to add AI shit to it too.

They already did. They added tabs to it, which honestly was a pleasant surprise but loooooong overdue. Apps like Notepad++ had stolen the reason for Notepad to exist long ago.

It'll have notepad

There’s still notepad, but Windows 11 office suite is already subscription only. They’re only taking wordpad out so people who don’t know better are pushed to buy in to the racket.

Isn't that dead too?

Anything intended to serve ads or invade your privacy.

3.11 (not 3.12, which was never a thing) apparently came with Microsoft Write.