Technology

use notepad++ as drop-in replacement.

One of the best features of notepad was that it starts quickly. That feature is now gone. :(

What's funny is that this likely irritated one of Microsofts own devs enough that they said 'fuck all of this' and invented the new cli app called Edit.

It's under 200kb and runs as a standalone binary if you want. Also supports mouse input.

Did I mention it's cross platform?

It's hard to imagine that Notepad of all things has now been enshittified. On Windows, I only ever use Notepad++, but regular ol' Notepad has been a staple of Windows almost since the beginning. It truly feels like they've finished peeling away what little good remained of what Windows used to be.

no. just no. Notepad exists to edit .txt files, not to fucking give me AI shit.

WordPad died for this.

This means it's also sending your text across the Internet and feeding the stupid fucking models with it.

You know, just what you want from a fucking notepad app.

meanwhile the text editor on linux mint is just a text editor, opens in seconds, and lets you edit text.

Happy that I switched to Linux

A market for pre-AI tech is going to become a thing.

Nobody asked for this! FFS, can megacorps stop shoving AI into everything. Lucky Charms and scissors will have AI soon enough.

I'm usually very defensive of Windows. However, a few days ago I wanted to take some notes in Notepad and it kept changing up what I wrote. As this has forever been the most simple text editor imaginable, it took me a good moment to realize, that they implemented auto-correction (which we know is a lie anyways).

The ridiculous thing is, nobody but tech people uses Notepad anyways and I can't imagine that they want these slop features in it. The value of it was the simplicity and that is now lost.

Is Microsoft not aware what Notepad is actually used for?

No one even needs or wants these features. No one uses notepad for anything other than writing down quick notes while on the phone. Why would I need an AI to rewrite that. Actually if I did need an AI to rewrite that, I just copy it out of notepad and into one of the 100 bazillion AI apps that now are.

Microsoft are wasting developer time adding features that not only does no one currently want, but no one could possibly ever need.

Looks like I gotta go boot up the Packard Bell & get Notepad.exe from my Windows 3.1 install...

For now, these features support English only, making premium AI more accessible and flexible for everyone.

They can't be serious, right?

Does Wordpad still exist? This seems to fit that MO more

It is possible to restore the old notepad.

I didn't include a link because I could not find a non-spammy one, but a search finds a few. I did it on my work PC.

And switching to a FOSS OS is probably preferable, but that's not always possible.

Aw come on, leave Notepad alone! It's like the last good Windows program.

Oh cool!

Said no one

Microsoft HAS to know that people who use notepad want lightweight, not bloat.... Right? This HAS to be a joke or malice... And not THAT level of incompetence.... Right? Right?

Macro-Shite giving no option but to have AI. They know dumbed down people are easier to harvest. Its the equivalent of getting people to pay for bitcoin mining and having the proceeds sent directly to you.

Ew

just fucking great. my work laptop opens notepad in 2-3s after my w11 upgrade and now it will propably need 6s or something. fucking bloat. In Private i use Fedora and Mint