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Microsoft drops Copilot branding in Notepad for Windows 11 for everyone, but it’s really just a rename (www.windowslatest.com)
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[–] Tiral@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago

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?

[–] KillGorack@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Just use kate

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 13 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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?

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago

What they did to notepad was the final straw for me.

[–] stefenauris@pawb.social 16 points 8 hours ago

Basically yes

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Yep.

They paywalled basic-ass Wordpad a few years ago. Yet another reason why I started using LibreOffice.

[–] chmod755@feddit.org 21 points 10 hours ago (4 children)

I'm using Notepad++ on Windows

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 15 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Just move to Linux at this point

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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!

[–] Weingeist@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

There are wrappers to run teams directly on Linux. Works like charm.

[–] wasabi@lemmy.eco.br 11 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, Notepad++ is an excellent piece of software, and I still miss it on Linux. Specifically, I miss the feature that can highlight the same text strings in different colors throughout a document. It's valuable when going through logs while troubleshooting something.

[–] freddo@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Can't this be done with Kate?

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 3 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I feel like almost everything can be done with Kate if you find the right setting. I think you can get it to knit you a sweater!

[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Aside from the 3 top right icons (probably) not showing correctly it seems to run. But I never used it, so I don't know what to test in there.

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2983

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 68 points 13 hours ago

TLDR: they didn't do anything except remove the copilot branding

[–] Hond@piefed.social 48 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 47 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] EpeeGnome@feddit.online 50 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Actually, they have 2 Outlooks, and neither of them are working.

[–] uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I believe there are three products called Outlook, actually

[–] Mountainaire@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Wait, what's the third?

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

My company discontinued access to notepad++. Fortunately, that same week they added vs code. If stripped to the bare minimum it's a serviceably fast text editor. (FOSS has to be approved by IT)

[–] Hond@piefed.social 9 points 11 hours ago

Fair, maybe i should have worded it notepad was perfectly fine. Havent touched the win11 version for 2 years now.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] underscores@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 hours ago

It's completely shocking to me, something is fatally wrong with native windows applications

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

As soon as marketing people say things like 'focussing on experiences' you realise they do not know how people use Windows.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 hours ago

I do recommend against things that suck, however

which is just about everything microslop touches

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[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 16 points 11 hours ago (5 children)

Thank god Kate has a Windows port.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, but that's using Linux with extra steps

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 2 points 8 hours ago

It was possible to replace Windows Task Bar with KDE Panel at one point (could be around KDE 4 times) and it was actually hilarious to use Windows with KDE (Dolphin and all). Certainly made Windows less terrible.

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Most of the KDE apps on Windows are broken in one way or another. Kate is the only one that works well in my experience. That being said, yes Linux is better.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've been an adherent of Notepad++ for ages. What's the draw of Kate?

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 3 points 6 hours ago

Mostly because it's what I'm used to. They're both pretty comperable.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Is that like my friend Anna who has an archive?

[–] daggermoon@piefed.world 2 points 8 hours ago

You know Anna too?

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 28 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

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++.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 1 points 51 minutes ago

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. :)

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[–] Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I have to use Shitdows 11 for work and honestly, I want to perform a lobotomy on myself because each fucking time I want to close the Notepad, Shitdows doesn't allow me because "It have to sync", why the fuck should a notepad sync???

[–] terabyterex@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Thats your company. Notpad doesnt sync for the rest of us

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