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They’re turning Notepad into what Wordpad was (or was supposed to be). Now everyone looking for the light weightiest *.txt editor must find a new tool...
For the absolute lightweight, there is vi, eMacs, nano, etc. For a UI I’ve been using VSCode. It is quite quick when you disable all extensions and most settings.
I don’t see why people are complaining. If you use notepad for txt files, nothing changes.
Because we collectively used to make fun of users that were complaining whenever an icon moved 42 pixel to the right and now we're them. But we think we're right and still we thought they were wrong. If we were in a PHP forum, this would be my signature: I'm getting too old for this shit.
Stopped using notepad when they added co-pilot. Stop shoving AI down our throats.
Just disable Copilot?
Is it because the average person isn't as tech savvy as most (if not all) HN readers to know any better, and those companies want the headcount of usage to look high to please stakeholders?
Enshittification at its finest stink.
This tool would have been so useful 25 years ago when I had to manually recolour every pixel in the contour of the cool photo I was editing for my new desktop background because the fill tool didn't recognise the background properly.
It's like they are trying to do the opposite of the Unix philosophy. Do many things very poorly.
Why’s this poor?
Notepad was never fancy, but it was a reliable tool to strip formatting or take a quick note, and now I cannot even count on that.
I don’t see why people are complaining. If you use notepad for txt files, nothing changes.
(Modulo CR/LF, of course.)
They’re turning Notepad into what Wordpad was (or was supposed to be). Now everyone looking for the light weightiest *.txt editor must find a new tool...
Windows 11 LTSC still has the old school notepad.exe (and calc.exe) instead of this UWP abomination. Also: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-20...
Is LTSC still impossible to get as someone who doesn't want to run cracked software or "license unlockers" on the same machine they do their banking on? I never found a way of buying it that didn't involve having to survive an interrogation by a sales team.