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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed (gizmodo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by L4s to c/technology
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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It's truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.

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[โ€“] Potatos_are_not_friends 12 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I thought WordPad was the best thing ever in 2001.

Then I got Microsoft Word. Then Google Docs changed everything by making it free and haven't even thought of WordPad since.

I dunno something something LibreOffice before the Linux nerds beat me up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Not a Linux nerd, LibreOffice is what we use on our five windows computers because it's free ๐Ÿคท

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Wordpad was good for notes with wrapped text. However then I discovered Notepad++ and that's the far better note taking application - you can even get plugins like a comparitor that compares two different files, as well as being an excellent application for typing and viewing code.

[โ€“] cheese_greater 0 points 10 months ago

Collabora's cool too!