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?
<funfact> The majority of the early internet (HTML) was mostly created in Notepad and similar basic text editors. </funfact>
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!
It used to be common.
Maybe they saw somewhere that people use it to format text and assumed that has something to do with programming.
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.
Good news everyone!!!
Microsoft Ctrl-C copy is now fully AI!
A1… it’s all computer!
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.
Switching to Linux is even better.
Windows is for enterprise use. It provides millions of jobs for people to clean up the bloat, insecure defaults, and the data mining to properly secure corporate data against Microsoft themselves.
Ya but I’m not installing that on other people’s computers. Also its more than needed for notepad things.
double the Ai?
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.
God damn I thought it would get better!
Nothing is simple, everything has a new logo and application instead of the functionality being native. Case in point,
Google calendar>select day>select out of office>decline meetings.
M365>create event>name it out of office>select out of office from drop down>select all day>trigger dialogue for viva insights>are you out of the office?> open viva insights> no such out of office settings available>return to calendar>save event.
Everyone can see with a glance if I am out of office in google and not m365.
These are good alternatives for Microsoft’s Notepad and Paint:
- For Windows:
- For Linux (and other operating systems):
Almost any default text editor on Linux is better than Windows notepad, and many are straight up better than Notepad++
Kate is also available on Windows.
Photopea. Why bother with paint or a download when it’s all in a browser and Photoshop lol
Great, shitty web UI instead of shitty AI UI.
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.
I think the whole point of Paint and Notepad is that they are installed by default. They are there to give you the most basic functionality MS can offer without charging you extra. Now they are simply trying to get some extra money by funneling users to AI/MS 365.
When you start adding bloat to notepad you know withea doubt you’ve really jumped the shark. Get fucked Microsoft
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.
Switched to Linux Mint at home, quit my Windows developer job, and having a great time. I’ll never go back.
In my house 3 computers are already running Linux (Raspbian on Raspberry Pi, Debian testing on my PC and openSUSE on a family laptop), and I already talked with my dad to install Linux on his personal laptop as well, which is probably going to be Linux Mint (I am planning to replace openSUSE on other laptop with Linux Mint as well, because openSUSE sucks).
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.
Check out greenshot. Has a built-in editor that’s great for quick stuff like this
No shit? I’ve been using Greenshot for screenshots for a while (stupid Foxhole closing tooltips whenever I hit shift for the snip tool hotkey) but had no idea it did anything more than that. I’ll take a look, thanks!
I think Inkscape is brought up less often because of its focus on vector graphics, which can be confusing to people new to it.
Yeah I’ve only used Inkscape a little bit but I would not categorize it as a program that can quickly be picked up
Those are nice tools but they don’t replace paint, they’re way more complex.
I’m using pinta. When I type “paint” in my xfce search bar, it already brings it up automatically.
GIMP isn’t that hard to use for basics.
This one always gets a chuckle out of me.
Glad I made you happy!
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
Lol this resonates with me as a disorganized person
Does that even run on windows without a bunch of hoop-jumping and some jank-ass chunky qt-style UI elements? I seriously haven’t looked at GIMP in like 25 years.
I’ve been using it off and on for over twenty years and it’s never needed more than running the installer to get it working on Windows in that time…
Fair enough, I haven’t looked at it at all since I last used linux a couple decades ago, that’s just been my experience with trying to use other linux-native software on windows.
Works fine every time I’ve used it in Windows, but I do mostly live in Linux now, so your mileage may vary.
Huh. I barely used it when I was on linux, so… shrug
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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
“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
🤣🤣🤣
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?
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.
Notepad++ has a plugin that makes it the default even for things that would normally be go to Notepad.
I installed npp on one work computer but I don’t want to on the other one. I just want to use what is already installed.
Nobody’s forcing you to use it. I didn’t even know it was there until this article pointed it out, and when I tried it in Notepad it turned out to need an Office 365 subscription that I don’t have. So by default I can’t use it even if I want to use it.
So by default I can’t use it even if I want to use it.
You can use the feature for free by using Microsoft’s Copilot chat bot, making the subscription requirement even more stupid.
Again, that’s not forcing anything. That’s even less so - you have to deliberately go to an AI application in that case.
I wasn’t making a comment regarding forcing, I was sharing an anecdote how Microsoft themselves are offering free workarounds for features they want to get paid for.
Nobody’s forcing you to use it.
At least not there. For now.
And that AI is not free either. They bundled it with the Office update
