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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.
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.
Yep, I’ll typically use vim or nano for editing existing files, but when in just want to make a quick temporary note or fiddle with some plain text it’s the graphical one that came with the DE.
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 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!
Wtf you have to login to use notepad now? Wtf???
Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!
Jeebus, u okay Microsoft? 😬
AI is the new "smart connected" that they are going to shoehorn into anything and everything. No one is asking for AI on Notepad.
Notepad++ and never look back.
Crying in Linux 😢
You will use vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are
:x
Oh my
Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because it’s fast and no bloat.
Worpad is dead
I'm all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster
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! 👍 👍 👍
Jesus christ.
There should be AI Jesus in the bible!
Abrahamitic Incantations
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.
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).
