Windows 11’s Notepad continues to get Copilot-powered AI features – a handy addition to a tool whose main appeal has always been simplicity and minimalism. Not all users are happy, however, with some saying AI features are overkill.
The whole purpose of Notepad is to open up a text file QUICKLY. Who the fuck cares about AI in this thing?
Who the fuck cares about AI in this thing?
I assume their team is called something like “strategic data partnerships for targeted ad delivery”.
Every word is more disgusting than the previous in that title. Ew. Lol
Yet another reason I’ve made NotePad++ my go-to editor. Better for all the crashlogs and stuff I mess with.
Damn, notepad++… I remember feeling so sad that there wasn’t a Linux version back when I ditched Windows.
Baffles me that this did not get a wildly successful native Linux version in all those years, but it’s probably too late now with VSCode and all the NeoVim fans.
Geany might be your thing.
Or Kate, which funny enough now runs on windows
Thanks for the recommendation. I did have a short stint with Geany back then, but this was nearly two decades ago now, I have since moved on.
From the Notepad++ home page:
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API
Trying to port it to other platforms is thus nonsensical. It would have to be a ground-up rewrite without the Windows API dependency. And there are indeed various other projects for Linux and other platforms that pretty much replicate its functionality, but they’re by definition not going to be Notepad++.
For Linux there’s Notepadqq
Is there? Releases span between 2017 and 2019, the last of which is a beta, and it is largely unmaintained, with most of the contributions after that being “readme updates” and the odd typo/mistranslation.Wouldn’t call that a wildly successful Linux version of notepad++.EDIT: reading this again, I don’t know why I sound so needlessly angry, it wasn’t my intention.
I meant to say this does not sounds like a viable alternative from a glance. But if you used it and it’s good I am happy to be proven wrong.
KDE’s Kate can be configured for similar functionality akin to NotePad++
I’ve found that the basic editors are all good. Mouse, Gedit, Kate, they all work wonderfully
They’ve come a long way in 20 years for sure.
and all the NeoVim fans.
Yes. NeoVim has no business being as good as a drop-in replacement for Notepad, as it is (for people who want that, anyway.)
Even VSCode isn’t half bad at a quick load, now - as long as it isn’t loading too many plugins.
NotePad++ is still pretty great, by any measure, though. (Edit: But not good enough to load Windows for, to me.)
You can leave at any time. You don’t have to be in an abusive relationship with your operating system.
Microsoft seem to have very tight grip on the corporate world. It’s getting better, but still.
I left a company once because they started switching to Microsoft infrastructure and that just got miserable. But I’m a privileged in that regard, a lot of people can’t do thatYeah, but how will I pirate games on Linux?
Oh yeah, it’s really not hard. Or so I have heard. From a friend.
Haven’t seen a single Linux game to download from torrents. All are for windows. Care to ask your friend how/where he pirates AAA games on Linux?
I had a dream where somebody pirated windows games on Linux and just played them through wine/proton. Just like… you know, legally purchased copies.
Of course, as an upstanding citizen I haven’t tried this in real life.
So you still need to run Windows, but now with extra performance overhead
Neither Wine or Proton require running Windows. They’re compatibility layers which allow Linux to operate software intended for Windows.
You may be thinking about when someone emulates a full virtual Windows machine within Linux, which is more resource-intensive. The overhead and performance impact of a compatibility layer like Wine or Proton is generally negligible compared to running such a VM.
Wine is not an emulator. It *translates* windows code to linux at runtime. Bazzite wouldn’t beat windows at so many benchmarks if it was a virtual machine.
Also I wouldn’t know but if you are looking for where to potentially find native linux binaries for games that support it, you should probably go ask that question on totally unrelated counter strike forums
You seem to really want this to not work, but I suggest actually looking into how far gaming on Linux has come. Proton is actual magic.
Running most Windows games on Linux is easy nowadays, regardless of how you acquired them.
Idk if you got it from the source directly inatead of websites that just reupload with malware, you would see linux versions BEFORE windows.
Proton. You run the Windows version sometimes it runs better than it does on Windows
Every windows site and maybe zamunda? I think that’s what he meant?
Look up Heroic or Lutris, both run Windows games in Linux
More efficiently without all the bloatware?
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Yeah, but how will I pirate games on Linux?
If this is sarcasm, you might want to tag it as such, before half the Linux community shows up to give pointers.
I, myself, have never pirated anything, obviously.
But I heard from a friend that it can be pretty great, even on Linux.
Cool, I will tell my friend that he should try it.
It’s easier
I mostly download ROMs for old Nintendo and Sony consoles, if for some reason I get a hankering for a modern title I’ll purchase it on my steam account which I run on my Ubuntu laptop.
No user said, “Leave it alone.” Not a single one. Universally from the office, to the classroom, to the monastery, every single person said, “Leave it the fuck alone.”
oh god i know what they’re planning…they’re going to force AI slop into the base model and charge you extra to move up to premium, where it’s just a regular fucking text editor, lmao
Ah, the Centurion package.
a handy addition
[Citation needed]
Copilot has been in Notepad, though. It can be disabled in Settings. I also disabled Markdown — I don’t need it. I just use Notepad as like a scratch pad, it’s a bit more versatile than Sticky Notes (which I also use).
It was already ruined when they modernized it. Now they are just pissing on it’s corpse.
I just decided to leave Microsoft alone 20 years ago.
Second best time is today!
Self-employed?
Plenty of jobs don’t need to have Microsoft involved. Hell, plenty of computer-based jobs don’t need Microsoft at all, and will be done worse with their products around
How would you get around not using Teams for a Teams meeting?
Don’t know about anyone else, but I just use the web version of Teams.
So… Microsoft is involved
Yes, but then so is any visit to a website using Azure. But at least I don’t have to install any MS software.
You don’t have teams meetings. There are alternatives that don’t require you to lock in in their infrastructure.
I’m aware, but if my boss is requiring me to join a Teams meeting, I’m not in much of a position to impose on him and others being requested to join the meeting, sometimes in the dozens and hundreds, to have the meeting over a different program instead.
And yet, it’s not a universal experience, even though you have one
i have never once used windows at work (professional programmer)
Want a simple text editor with no AI nonsense on windows? Oddly Microsoft has you covered: https://github.com/microsoft/edit
fuck that, Nano For Life!
pfftt-- vi isn’t that hard /s
MacBook
Windows 11
On a website which has AI slop wondering what’s wrong with AI unenthusiasts. Guess the picture is just icing on the get-that-icky-AI-drool-off-of-me cake
Uninstall new notepad.
Install Notepad (classic).
Ezpz. Although i wonder how long that’ll last. My manager got upset i wasnt using the new notepad because of its features.
I explained np++ is for things that last more than a day. Notepad classic is for thoughts i dont care about when i shut down.
My manager got upset i wasnt using the new notepad because of its features.
Dang. They sound un-fun.
They also are against using mspaint as a clipping/editing tool (for very basic things mind you so there’s no reason anything more than mspaint is needed)
And i wont take blashpemy against mspaint. Hes not a very fun guy indeed lol.
I really want AI in my…
You want AI in your penis? Kid? Wife?
I hope they put AI into my sneakers, lightbulbs, clocks…every fucking thing that doesn’t need it.
I want AI powered toilet paper, so that I can wipe my ass with global warming… Nothing says fuck you nature as much as going out of your way to make its destruction even more humiliatingly pointless.
What’s wrong with people
Guess I’ll just keep using old versions lol
Notepad ++
It’s not an old Version but what windows notepad shouldve been twenty years ago
FAVORITE NOTEPAD++ PLUGIN - GO!
I like Compare and JSON Parser - use them everyday.
I’m a big fan of the hex editor plugin, but mostly because I like playing with hex
Yeah, I’ve used it. If I’m editing code I use Visual Studio since Unity opens scripts in that. If I’m just looking at text I want my editor as simple as possible.
Join Team Linux!
I have a machine with Ubuntu. Most of my hobby stuff is on W7/W10 machines. My familiarity with Windows commands far exceeds my familiarity with Linux commands.
Then you can learn
