I really don’t want AI. Can’t it just be a regular notepad? Or a regular calculator? I’m a human and I want to do human things not be replaced by a machine. I want the software to serve me.
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I want the software to serve me.
Free Software is literally your only option, then. Everything else serves its corporate master first.
Ai, which is famously good at maths.
If you're not in control of your software then it's in control of you. Avoid proprietary software at all cost
W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC.
Since leaning about notepad++ I have not used the notepad. Sad to see there is now another reason not to launch notepad.
I copied the windows 10 notepad.exe to my 11 machine and use that instead.
I did the same thing with mspaint, but from Win98.
On Windows, I switched from Notepad to Notepad++. When I switched to Linux, I tried using Notepadqq, which is just a Notepad++ fork with Linux support. But then I realized that Kate is actually miles ahead of Notepad++/qq.
I have zero clue how well it works on Windows, but I highly recommend trying it based on my Linux experience. Notepad++ and Kate are both FOSS either way, so you can't go wrong if you end up preferring or not preferring it.
Im a Sublime Text fan, I think their UI is cleaner than NP++ and I get a lot of milage out of the regex find/replace feature.
Me too. The multi-line select and edit feature has been a godsend so frequently. I use NP++ plenty too but I find Sublime far more useful out of the box and especially when I’m bouncing between Linux, macOS, Windows; it’s nice to have a consistent text editor across all platforms.
However I also use micro a lot if I’m just using the shell. It’s like Sublime but in the terminal and not proprietary too! Perfect for when you’re SSHing into servers and don’t want nano or vi. Best part, micro is a static binary so you can curl/wget it and spin it up straight away.
i prefer Sublime Text…
"We have determined that a program called "Notepad" has become a security vulnerability, please remove it from all Windows systems."
Everyone needs to just stop using Windows.
just please fucking stop...
???
Is this a joke I'm too open source to understand?
I'm a vim fan as well, once I figured out how pasting worked (not just yanking and putting, using the system clipboard) I couldn't use anything else.
Is that like an ad for vim?
Just get past the point when you learn copy paste, the real one using clipboard then wow then you will be so hooked
Yeah I'm intrigued but it sounds like a hard pass then
No, I just didn't know how to copy to the system clipboard. Its just highlighting the text, and pressing "*y
It's just funny that this is considered a step forward and hailed as useful. But I get it, I love keyboard navigation
3===D
Copilot -> Make longer
But it still can’t handle rich text?
No, you need wordpad for that.
It was discarded recently.
For Win11 users, sure
It was specifically never intended to, that's why we had wordpad and write, until M$ killed them to push office
There are a lot of config files that break if edited in a rich text editor, notepad makes sure that every machine comes with a package that can cleanly edit flat text files for that reason.
It’s possible for a program to handle both plain text and rich text.
Which write does, and on occasion was accidentally used to create malformed plaintext files that borked many a device
So they made sure to include at least one explicitly plaintext only editor, to prevent such mistakes.
You can bring back the old notepad and disable the new one.
Why are you using windows?
Some of us have jobs where there's no choice.
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I mean, don't look now but you're using Windows.
Ssshhh - don't look. It'll get suspicious.
My main computer uses Fedora, don't worry.
Your secondary computer knows
I thought this happened over a year ago
The icon is more prominent now.
Hahajaha, oh god, people still use Windows?
Jesus fucking Christ.
Lol. Lmao, even.
At risk of completely triggering lemmy... that button is basically an Ad. It apparently only works if you are signed into a Microsoft account and have the right subscription, otherwise all you can do is view the available plans.
Go ahead and normalize this shit like you are doing and eventually every app will be nothing but a platform for add on services.