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Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession (www.theregister.com)

submitted 8 months ago by boem to c/technology

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[–] someguy3 5 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Is there a LibreOffice alternative?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Vim

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

A good one.

Nobody needs to learn hieroglyphics to save a file.

[–] essteeyou 7 points 8 months ago

Yeah, just press this button with a picture of a floppy disk on it.

"What's a floppy disk?"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

nano

[–] [email protected] -2 points 8 months ago

disgusting

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

org-mode?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago

orgymode?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Linuxes come with text editors (almost always vim, and usually a GUI one like Gedit). But they aren't part of LibreOffice, just as Notepad isn't part of MS Office.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Could use Wordpad (outdated word that’s free)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

WPS Office, is from a chinese company but it works pretty good with Microsoft Office files

[–] Tangent5280 7 points 8 months ago

riddled with ads.