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Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession
(www.theregister.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Personally I could never use a text editor that is free and not open source (Aside from built-in editors). For simpler stuff like config files etc I use Kate which looks nice, has syntax highlighting and is cross platform. For more complicated stuff I like VSCodium. Both are well maintained, and work great.
We all have our preferences, I just happen to love Sublime