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"My Windows 11 user experience document that I keep adding to" (pastebin.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Note: I don't care if the issues listed can be fixed - it's still like selling a nonworking car then getting the users to go to the shady cyberpunk district to get the fixes. It's like selling a dangerous power adapter and then go, hey, you can get an expert to go in there and do some soldering to the bridge rectifier and bulk cap trace widths, fix up the spark gaps so it complies with the most basic of safety regulations, and it will work as well as the competitor's, so aren't they practically the same? "Duurp, well at least you CAAAN get inside and solder-" Hey, what if a power supply just worked and was well featured? After like 40 years of development. Ever thought about that?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

is notepad good?

[–] toynbee 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I haven't used Windows for years, so I can't say what it is now, but it used to be great for note taking (as you might guess) and basic text editing. Basically anything that didn't require any formatting. In fact, I used to use it to remove formatting from text during copy and paste back before "paste without formatting" was an option.

If you were making a joke and I was oblivious, I apologize.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to use it to remove formatting from text during copy and paste back before “paste without formatting” was an option.

Last year when I was forced to use Windows for work, I noted that "paste without formatting" didn't always remove all formatting. So I still needed a text editor to do that.

[–] toynbee 4 points 1 week ago

Fantastic, just fantastic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

no joke, I just don’t like notepad and how Microsoft’s handled its development. I feel like it’s by far the weakest built-in plaintext editor I’ve used across multiple OSes, and there’s so much easy stuff they could do to make it better, but instead they’ve shoved in a bunch of shit nobody asked for like AI of all things, so it’s not even particularly lightweight anymore

usually if I have to touch windows I find notepad++ on Huckter Joe’s Totally Not Trojans inc or emacs if I’m in hell again (long term development for a corporation that only does windows) but there’s a lot of reasons to want a better lightweight built-in option

[–] toynbee 3 points 6 days ago

I think it depends on what you're trying to do (with the versions of notepad I've used). It's great for just putting a bunch of text in a file. If you want to do literally anything else, it sucks, but it serves its purpose well.

I'd rather use vim for the most part, but if I have to take notes in Windows, notepad was my go-to.