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Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.
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It’s still going to ship with Notepad.
Notepad is one of those apps that actually received an update not long ago: >!They’ve added Search with Bing to the Edit menu… (－‸ლ)!<
I wonder what updating that ancient code base was like.
They actually didn’t update it at all. The Notepad app that ships with Windows 11 (and recent Win10 builds) is actually a completely rewritten, bloated, UWP (aka “Modern”) app. The old Notepad is now an “optional feature” that needs to be manually installed.
I thought the point of notepad was to open quickly and do quick changes without having to open a more heavy duty editor.
To be fair, on modern systems it does open quickly in spite of it’s size (probably because most of the shared libraries for UWP apps are already loaded in memory). And at the moment, the new Notepad doesn’t offer any additional features which are common in heavy duty editors, so the “bloat” is mostly from an engineering standpoint. Well, I guess with the recent unwanted addition of Bing search, we’re now starting to see signs of actual user-facing bloat.
I’ll just install Vim with Chocolatey.
Windows is getting almost as user friendly as Linux
LOL
Iirc, the original meaning of Word Processor required formatting, which Notepad doesn’t do.
But otherwise yeah, this is a non-story. No one uses Wordpad or wants to use Wordpad. Let’s focus on the egregious privacy concerns of Windows instead.
Tbf I haven’t used wordpad for a very long time. If ever.
I avoid it because if I’m editing a text file wordpad would just mess it up.
Maybe if it’s an rtf file I need wordpad.
But word is available.
But word is available.
Not for me. It’s just too expensive for a task that I very rarely need and there are good free alternatives (like Wordpad - though that’s not the one I use personally).
TBH - I forgot it was there…
Yeah I think most people use web apps these days
Handing it to LibreOffice or Abiword I guess. Or for cloud fans, Google Docs. I don’t think anyone is going to go without a word processor because of this.
Damn shrinkflation.
To be honest, I never use Wordpad.
Either I just need to edit something quick, where Notepad excels, or in going to use just about any other option for text editor or word processor.
It’s surprising to see how much attention this is getting. And I can’t help but think how many people commenting about it actually use it to any real degree.
I honestly think people using comic sans is more nightmarish than anything inflicted on us by wordpad.
Comic Sans is dead all hail comic shanns
(Also I’ve unironically loved Comic sans for 30 years)
I too am a fan of Comic Sans. It sits in my heart the same place as overplayed dad rock.
I actually code in a monospace variant of comic sans because my life is basically a shitpost
Not to mention that Comic sans is a great accessible font for people with dyslexia
There are allegedly even better fonts for dyslexia, but do they upset other people as much? No.
Open Dyslexic has you covered. It was designed by experts for this purpose.
Thanks! I love it!
I don’t care as long as they don’t take away NotePad. NotePad has useful features I’d hate to lose - such as stripping out all formatting, and being able to search/replace wildcard characters as themselves, rather than as wildcards.
CTRL+Shift+V to paste without formatting.
Have a look at NotePad++, it even has regex-search.
A rather international nightmare I would say
Not as good of a Gerald Ford reference that way, though.
Go with open source Office alternatives or go with Microsoft Office Mondo, if you don’t want to pay. Otherwise, Microsoft 365 seems good with that 1TB storage.
Bring back Microsoft Write, cowards
Honestly, I always remove this component along with IE after installing Windows. Should have long ago been sent to it’s grave.
