Notepad++ and never look back.
this post was submitted on 07 Nov 2024
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Crying in Linux π’
You will use vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are
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just use geany or something else..u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++
You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won't be exactly integrated experience, but it works.
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Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because itβs fast and no bloat.
Worpad is dead
i use notepad to paste garbage that needs the formatting stripped out, they better not fuck that up.
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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I'm all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster
what do you do if you need to run an app thats windows exclusive? wine?
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.
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 :/
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 passthroughβusing the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machineβwhich some gamer types prefer.
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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.
need it for work dog
So do I. It sits in its vm jail and does its job, or I roll back the snapshot
If so, then you either need WINE, a VM, or dual boot.
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Just use KDE's Kate, it's so much better in every way
maybe not kate but kwrite. kate is a code editor
For coders, yes, but for writing down a quick note or something is nice
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Is nothing sacred?
At least thatβs 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.
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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Why doesnβt 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.
Because Windows doesnβt 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).
Maybe windows should just fully embrace containers for as much backwards compatibility as possible.
Because windows is a fucking mess π
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But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?
I predicted you wanted to multiply your answer by 1.2x. No need to thank me!!
I will only use this if it uses Clippy's animations.
Thats... what this is, right?
Clippy 3.0?
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
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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Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!
Jeebus, u okay Microsoft? π¬
Finally AI in my favourite code editor!
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