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i hate that the notepad app is called kate and the icon does not resemble notepad in any way. also it does too much, with default settings it gets in my way. fuck you kate! just be a fucking notepad!
You're using the wrong app. The notepad-like editor for KDE is called KWrite, the icon is exactly as you'd expect it. Kate is an advanced plugin-based editor with IDE-like features.
You may want to use kwrite if kate is too much.
I love Kate and used it as my primary coding editor for like a decade.
Are you also a nano fan? (best command line editor ever, from the POV of tech support walking a Linux n00b through editing config files. Also can do syntax highlighting if if set it up properly.)
Not sure if that's bait. Kate is more editor-y (code collapse, LSP server capability, compile commands, GIT stuff), the notepad only (that Kate is based on, if you have Kate you have both) is KWrite and it does have a white-square-with-lines-on-it icon.
Funnily enough (despite using Kate as my editor) I use Featherpad for simple text (and that has a better icon than KWrite) and I also don't even use KDE, but this is the least of my Linux problems right now.
Calc -> opens libre office spreadsheets because the calculator is kalc or kcalc or some dumb shit
Fffffffuuuuuuuuuu
Maybe doesn't help if you just want a stock KDE system, but I really like
qalculate-qt(though for me this was more about moving on from galculator when it went over to CSD).To be fair, that is a similar problem, just with a q instead of a k.
You'd need to know the name of the calculator to access it, if you don't have a dedicated button to load it, or a menu to find it in.
If it's your first time on linux, you might well think it doesn't have a calculator at all.
I see that as a bigger issue of default applications not being set correctly (and installing an alternative should hopefully fix that).
Search should also mitigate this (application search, package installer). kalc is not useful for search (kcalc is fine in that way), but the second obvious search term would be searching ulat (e/or) which would work for qalculate, and when descriptions are part of search calc actually does result in qalculate popping up.
For menus qalculate is in education and science section (because it can do a lot more than basic math), which might make it easier to find (on my system, both of those menus have that as the only option) or harder if you expect it to be in accessories like everything else standard.