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Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95 (gadgettendency.com)
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Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

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[–] BombOmOm 61 points 10 months ago (3 children)

LibreOffice is a good solution for anything one would use Office or WordPad for. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.

[–] Ottomateeverything 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.

[–] udadu 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Likely feels that way because it has to load the Java runtime before launching.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I believe, it only loads a Java runtime for the JDBC database driver in LibreOffice Base. At least, you can tell it in the settings to not use a Java runtime and that seems to not affect the remaining functionality...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Tbh I don't use Windows or libre office so I'm just guessing. Back in the day I just know it took what felt like forever to load initially (and my pc fans took flight each time) but so did MS office 🤷

[–] udadu 1 points 10 months ago

It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

LibreOffice is also available as a Flatpak:

Outside of that. And keeping in mind WordPad was a standalone rich text editor:

Kate is pretty swell too:

Or slim down to Kwrite:

I myself am also mostly writing in markdown on Obsidian:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Markdown has definitely replaced most of what I used wordpad for. Obsidian is nice, but I’ll also write markdown in vscode or even just vim. It all works and even when it’s not interpreted, it still looks readable. Plus since it’s all just text, easily converted, and widely supported, I don’t have to worry about format deprecation.

[–] stockRot 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Are these available in Windows?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Seems like only Kate and LibreOffice