Notepad is perhaps better known as a code editor than a word processor
How many insane people are using notepad for software development that it's "better known" for that?
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2025
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I think most everyone who is sane has moved on to coding in MS Word by now. Much better, and you can italicize and bold parts of the code for emphasis.
Case sensitivity in the language is soo last year. Formatting sensitivity is the new hottness!
Maybe they saw somewhere that people use it to format text and assumed that has something to do with programming.
It used to be common.
Pinta has become my favorite image editing tool. Every other one I feel like I have to fight with in order to do anything (looking at you Gimp), but Pinta is so easy and intuitive it's a joy to use.
I truly can't fathom why microsoft are so bad at these things. I actually like the photos "app" on windows but it recently updated to instead of allowing cropping and rotating to having a colourful button for "edit in designer" which doesnt open anything, creates a blank photos window and crashes.
They are so bad at improving customer experience. I have an opportunity next month with our cto and cio and I am hoping to get across just how shitty they are to deal with and interact with.
Please keep us updated!
We are saving literal millions a yeae by moving from google. Its a bottom line decision, the best I can hope for is to colour their view to hold the opinion against the savings in discussions down the line.
Sharepoint overcomplicates everything.
I have been using SP at my job for like a decade now and I still cannot find my way around it and have to bookmark specific pages/folders so I can find them again.
It's aggressively, in-your-face bad.
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Holy shit is notepad just fucking ruined.
I don't need any of that shit I just need to view a short log or something on someone elses computer. Now it cant do that without auto saving and reopening shit.
Nobody is writing a document anyone cares about with notepad just fucking leave it.
Notepad++ is good.
Ya but I'm not installing that on other people's computers. Also its more than needed for notepad things.
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A1… it’s all computer!
When you start adding bloat to notepad you know withea doubt you've really jumped the shark. Get fucked Microsoft
Welp, time to delete that shit and find replacements. Notepad++ is a solid upgrade over notepad, there must be something similar for paint that doesn't have a steep learning curve?
PaintDotNet is what I used to use on windows. It was a great upgrade without being too complex.
PaintDotNet is perfect if you only need some commonly used "pro" features. It's a relatively easy transition from paint.
All I use paint for is like drawing red underlines under text in screen grabs and shit like that. The most 'pro' feature I ever use is when I sometimes misclick the rounded rectangle tool instead of the rectangle tool and I'm too lazy to fix it. I'll give that a shot tho, thanks.
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I think Inkscape is brought up less often because of its focus on vector graphics, which can be confusing to people new to it.
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GIMP isn't that hard to use for basics.
I never understood this one. What kind of course would you be doing that required very expensive paid software, but you didn't know ahead of time that said software was required. I think the imaginary OP is just an idiot.
I personally think that's the point. It just mocks the Linux Fanboys.
4chan greentext is mostly fanfic, always has been
It reads to me more as joke than something that tries to sell itself as a true story
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These are good alternatives for Microsoft's Notepad and Paint:
- For Windows:
- For Linux (and other operating systems):
Kate is also available on Windows.
Almost any default text editor on Linux is better than Windows notepad, and many are straight up better than Notepad++
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Man, does ANYONE needs this? Probably no one. This addition is just another way to force people to use AI so they can gather more personal information about that person. Specially with Notepad.
Will people be able to do thing without AI on the future if it's being pushed so hard on everything? Like, they want to make our brains smoother and dumber lol
The worst part is if I'm using a work computer or something, I can't just type into notepad anymore without considering that a record is being made.
Is there a Windows+R "oldnotepad.exe" that just works pre-installed?
Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.
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You can either uninstall new version of Notepad or return to the old one using some registry trick (look it up).
Or you can download some version of Microsoft Notepad on the internet (probably not really that safe) or even ReactOS Notepad if you really insist of having such simple program, but using I'd recommend to use something like Notepad++ instead.
"Bro, if we keep feeding the AI more and more data, he willl be like a real human, then will be cracking sick jokes with me. He will be my first real friend!" -- Elon Musk probably
He will be my first real friend
🤣🤣🤣
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The whole point of Paint and Notepad is that they're extremely simple and no-frills.
If MS really wants to add this bloat, it should be to their Office suite.
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Good news everyone!!!!!
Microsoft Ctrl-C copy is now fully AI!
Switched to Linux Mint at home, quit my Windows developer job, and having a great time. I’ll never go back.
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Win11 Paint annoys the hell out of me. This is it. We are breaking up. I'm going back to old Paint.
I ditched Notepad for Metapad years ago.
And that AI is not free either. They bundled it with the Office update
They need to put AI inside the AI next and add a couple more full screens of ads , some subscriptions and super ultra premium++ edition OS DLC for functionality to save files.
Out of curiosity I've tried the AI feature in Paint (on my work computer) to erase something and use AI to fill in the background
I was removing a line between two items on a flowchart, background had diagonal colored lines in a regular repeating pattern (think college ruled paper at an angle).
Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!
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On mobile so excuse my not linking to site but winaero tweaker has links for instructions how to replace current notepad with the classic notepad. Haven't looked back since.
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