Fuck this article. Title is insanely misleading. The paywall is for 1 specific AI feature, not the Notepad program itself.
Even when I had to use Windows, I used Notepad++. Microsoft’s Notepad has messed up the formatting of so many text files, over the years no one should even consider it.
That said, why would anyone even want or need AI for what should be just a simple text editor?
It has never been free since you bought it together with the windows license :^)
Now it’s another micro transaction on top of the product you already paid for.
I use linux but I just checked on my windows 11 vm, the paywall is for AI copilot stuff not the core functionality of the app at all.
Wow what an overdramatic headline then, I mean at this level it’s not even clickbait it’s straight up lies.
They will do it with ma office, although you can use cracked version.
And this is why Windows is always the laughing stock. Use Notepad++ for Windows, or literally anything you want (including a fork of N++ called “Notepad qq”) on Linux.
The article says it’s to enable some AI rewrite shit. So basically if you want normal functionality, everything is normal. If you want something they are investing billions of dollars into for reasons unknown to modify your text, you have to pay them.
It actually sounds reasonable. Want this expensive shit? Pay for it. No? Don’t.
Why are you justifying bloat?
The first thing I do when setting up new Windows environments (for work) is to install Notepad++. Fuck Microsoft.
This is why they got rid of WordPad.
And no, I don’t want AI crap in my basic note-taking app.
I have been a Notepad ++ user for years. I sometimes forget that the Microsoft Notepad even exists.
good cause literally anything else is better than notepad so if this pushes people to download literally anything else instead it’s a good development
hopefully linux.
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Dammit! I love notebook. Truly I didn’t know it was Microsoft.
This is Notepad
I can hear this image
Will you need a subscription to turn-off the computer now?
I imagine adding a fine to using the psu switch would make it truly the year of linux.
Notepad++.
That is all.
I think you dropped this on the way in, king:
I don’t want to get into a text editor war - because these are all good options - but it’s definitely also worth giving the “Kate” editor from KDE a go, it’s available as a native Windows app from the MS store and everything:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NWMW7BB59HW
I personally find it considerably nicer to use than Notepad++, and it means I don’t have to give up 25 years of muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts when I have to switch to a windows machine.
Also some crazy how, it uses less RAM than Notepad‽ (With no files open, 61 vs 71MB) Not sure what Microsoft are up to, but it’s definitely something strange.
To each their own for sure, but the takeaway here is that there are definitely better notepads than Notepad by now, especially since having AI baked into your plain text editor isn’t something that anyone ever asked for.
At this rate you may a well use a slab of some granite and a chisel, or maybe even vim.
Been using nedit for a long time, then medit aka mooedit. When that became abandonware, I switched to Bluefish. Even though it’s 100% what I need, it’s the best for me, for now.
Sublime Text
In my opinion, Sublime Text is a little bit better for coding based applications, specifically with like HTML and CSS, even though Notepad++ is great for it too, but just for overall drag and drop replace, works with everything, wonderful, free and open source software, it is very, very difficult to beat Notepad++.
Price wise sublime text isn’t that great unless you are coding with it.
Fair, I just don’t like how cluttered Notepad++ feels.
Some people would call that “functionality”.
Sublime Text has all that functionality and more without stealing precious screen space from your valuable text.
Never used Sublime Text but just from the screenshots on their site looks like the only real difference is the menu bars? Do you have to reference the documentation to look up keyboard shortcuts on all the stuff you don’t do often?
No, it’s not vi.
I’ve never heard of notepad++ being referred to as cluttered before. It’s fairly spartan in my opinion.
Cluttered compared to Notepad or Sublime Text.
gedit is available from the Microsoft store.
Seconded!
Does anyone still use Notepad?? xD
