They could've added this to wordpad if they didn't kill it.
Full access to notepad? So what, I need to pay to be able to toggle text wrapping or look at the about menu? It's fucking notepad.
EDIT: I didnt expect so many downvotes taking sides with MS
It’s for the “AI” no one was asking for in the first place
hahahahahaha, they're gonna charge admission to a dead end next. ta-da!!!!
I don't think it's ragebait/clickbait. I think it's really problematic that just a simple text editor get this bad by enshittification.
But it is though, it's for a feature that you don't need and can just turn off and never see again...
[obligatory linux boast] I really prefer Kate to Notepad because KDE makes superior, non AI encrusted software that actually works for it's users. And it's FREE!
I like Kate as a program but man KDE need to change how some of their app names appear in Plasma.
A new user looking through their start menu and seeing "Kate" will have no idea it's a text editor/notepad. The same is true for multiple other programs.
Okular, Dolphin, Cantata... ask someone who's never tried Plasma before what those programs do and I'd wager you'd get an incorrect answer for each one.
What does "Excel" do? What does "Steam" do? What does "Balena" do? What does "Conky" do?
Programs that we think of as being part of the OS, such as the included text editor, is a very different thing to something like Steam, imo.
Steam isn't preinstalled on your PC, it's not a core part of your desktop OS. You download Steam yourself, so you'd only do it once you already know what it is.
Third party apps kinda need unique names and branding like that to distinguish themselves.
A newbie won't know what "Kate" or "Okular" do. They might know what "Dolphin" does because it has a folder as the app icon (although users of screen readers won't see that). They will probably know what "Notepad" or "Text Editor" does, though.
Kate isn't a part of the OS, though... the text editor that is a part of the OS is called "vi".
It literally is. It's part of the KDE Plasma desktop. It comes preinstalled.
The Vim, nano command line text editors also being there doesn't mean Kate isn't an OS app.
Would you say the Dolphin file explorer isn't an OS/system app on the basis that you can use commands like cd, mv, cp, pwd in terminal? Because I certainly wouldn't.
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