I switched to Linux recently, you can too. It's easy and works well now. No more of this bullshit from Microsoft.
this post was submitted on 21 Feb 2025
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Enshittification
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What is enshittification?
The phenomenon of online platforms gradually degrading the quality of their services, often by promoting advertisements and sponsored content, in order to increase profits. (Cory Doctorow, 2022, extracted from Wikitionary) source
The lifecycle of Big Internet
We discuss how predatory big tech platforms live and die by luring people in and then decaying for profit.
Embrace, extend and extinguish
We also discuss how naturally open technologies like the Fediverse can be susceptible to corporate takeovers, rugpulls and subsequent enshittification.
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Linux has always worked ok. It's the desktop environments that are unpolished. And the driver model.
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It boggles the mind the things MS does to their OS without any apparent shame.
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Linux baby
Feels good
That just raises the next question of which text editor to use
Just use your DE's default default. Like Kate in KDE.
NotepadQQ if you like Notepad++
I was expecting an eMacs vs vi flame war but somehow you’ve managed to piss off both camps by using a GUI. Well done.
Use GVim then 🤣🤣🤣
Nano or vi or pico or whatever floats your boat 😈
Vim though
Honestly, I'm thoroughly in the nano camp 😂
Oh I don't really mind what anyone uses, vim is just a lot better than vi in my experience and typically gets aliased to vi when it gets installed. I'd hate for anyone to get vanilla vi with their distro and wonder why so many people like vi not realising most are probably using vim.
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LOL that's like peak enshittification right there.
Next step: add IA to minesweeper and solitaire under a paywall
Fuck Microsoft. Why bringing Notepad to Microsoft 365 service in the first place? OneNote isn't good?
who asked for this, I get the article sucks. but like.... it's just supposed to be a simple text editor and I think I'm right to worry about what will happen to the features that don't make the money. the people saying.. just don't pay for it if you don't wanna use it.. didn't change the fact that this is just additional bloat added to something that doesn't even need it....
they literally already have vscode, which is fantastic.. why not just push that a little harder and add features like these over there and not into flipping notepad xD
the tabbing functionality is a godsend and requested. this just feels weird imo