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[–] underthesign 101 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Notepad++ and never look back.

[–] Valmond 19 points 1 month ago (9 children)
[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Or Kwrite of you want something simple.

[–] Valmond 5 points 1 month ago

I'll give it a try, thanks!

[–] TORFdot0 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You will use vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are

[–] Valmond 4 points 1 month ago
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[–] notous 7 points 1 month ago

just use geany or something else..u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++

[–] FourThirteen 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] daddy32 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won't be exactly integrated experience, but it works.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Kakoune is there for you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

vscodium, gedit?

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because it’s fast and no bloat.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] MimicJar 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

If Notepad is getting AI text editing then it's as good as dead too.

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[–] WagnasT 10 points 1 month ago

i use notepad to paste garbage that needs the formatting stripped out, they better not fuck that up.

[–] pycorax 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I've been using Notepads (yes with an extra S) instead of Notepad for ages now and it's a pretty good and fast option with a nice modern design even before MS changed up Notepad.

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (10 children)

what do you do if you need to run an app thats windows exclusive? wine?

[–] WagnasT 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It's really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.

[–] DacoTaco 7 points 1 month ago (7 children)

How well does a windows vm run in linux? Does it have hardware acceleration?
Asking because i need something to run photoshop and lightroom, which both need hardware acceleration :/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn't free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthroughβ€”using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machineβ€”which some gamer types prefer.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My solution is to not run that app.

The only Windows-only stuff I have run in the last 15+ years of using Linux are games, and then I just pick one that works out of the box on Steam for Linux. The transition period was rough, but now I just don't even consider what Windows-only software exists and stick to Linux software, and I've solved every problem I've had so far.

If you really need something, either WINE or a VM works. I actually have a separate drive on my desktop with Windows installed, but I haven't needed to boot up Windows in years. But it's there if I absolutely need it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

So do I. It sits in its vm jail and does its job, or I roll back the snapshot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If so, then you either need WINE, a VM, or dual boot.

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[–] trespasser69 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.

Keep going M$! You're the best advertsiter to Linux! πŸ‘ πŸ‘ πŸ‘

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Just use KDE's Kate, it's so much better in every way

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

maybe not kate but kwrite. kate is a code editor

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] kokesh 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There should be AI Jesus in the bible!

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is nothing sacred?

At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).

And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.

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

And most Linux distributions have a simple text editor shipped with their desktop environment (i.e. Kate or GNOME Text Editor).

I use vim, but there are simpler editors if you want something CLI, like nano or pico.

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[–] Ghostalmedia 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

[–] MurrayL 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.

The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).

[–] lapping6596 6 points 1 month ago

Maybe windows should just fully embrace containers for as much backwards compatibility as possible.

https://github.com/dockur/windows

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Because windows is a fucking mess πŸ˜‚

[–] woelkchen 4 points 1 month ago

Microsoft is in conflict with itself if web apps, modern native apps, or classic native apps are the future. That's why even different Microsoft applications feel as or even more disconnected from each other than using KDE applications under Gnome.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

I will only use this if it uses Clippy's animations.

Thats... what this is, right?

Clippy 3.0?

[–] AnUnusualRelic 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I predicted you wanted to multiply your answer by 1.2x. No need to thank me!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90's that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic... or at least we created it on a training course...

So, I'm surprised that anyone's done anything with it.

It's probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Finally AI in my favourite code editor!

/s (both)

[–] stupidcasey 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!

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