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I still use notepad to try to avoid all the crap software tries to cram down my throat these days. Sad to see they've managed to mess with this too. I wonder how long it'll be before tracking and dark patterns are shoved into this notepad version (if it hasn't happened already).
The only way to avoid dark patterns in software these days is to use Linux.
I worked on Windows back in 2014, probably the most surprising thing joining there out of college was looking through the bug database. Every issue that gets complained about online -- and many more -- are in there, and have been for a long time, marked WONTFIX due to a potential compatibility break, lack of priority, or some other policy reason. I don't know if anyone even owned Notepad or any other older inbox apps…
I have an app that has run on every version of Windows from 2000 through Windows 10. It now doesn't work in Windows 11 because they didn't reimplement the IDeskBand interface for the taskbar that my app uses to show remaining battery time. My app is even part of their compatibility test suite (they asked me for permission and a license). I understand the need to move forward and that BW compatibility can be hinder th…
There is no "need to move forward".
Edit -> Search with Bing... (Ctrl-E)Does it have freaking linewrap?
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notepad++ is a far superior product imo. so many useful features out of the box, and has plugins also. * search in all opened docs * find/replace with regex * tabs to space * line operations etc Very useful, and for my workflows on Windows, indispensible (even alongside wsl or powershell)
I use notepad++, but it nags me for updates more often than I would like. If I only need a quick dirty note, notepad is still better.
I still love it as a tool though.
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notepad++ is a far superior product imo. so many useful features out of the box, and has plugins also. * search in all opened docs * find/replace with regex * tabs to space * line operations etc Very useful, and for my workflows on Windows, indispensible (even alongside wsl or powershell)
I use notepad++, but it nags me for updates more often than I would like. If I only need a quick dirty note, notepad is still better.
10 minute QA because they don't seem to have done it: - It consistently starts slower than Notepad3 while having substantially fewer features to load (and also slower than the old Notepad of course) - THEY ANIMATED THE SCROLLING OMG PLEASE DONT DO THIS (especially when grabbing the scroll bar handle). Any amount of delay is too much in notepad - the animation runs at 60Hz even on a high refresh rate screen, so it loo…
The problem is that Microsoft is still pretending that UWP/WinUI isn't a complete mistake. All those issues are inherent to that technology.
Microsoft has not added any functionality to their operating system or applications since 1998–only bloat to keep up with the need to create a need for faster processors. I can’t think of one thing I can do in the Microsoft Office suite I couldn’t do 20 years ago. It’s just slower.
There is a chance that your use case is basic and hasn’t changed in 20 years, but I think there is a higher chance of it’s a case of general hatred for Microsoft. > only bloat to keep up with the need to create a need for faster processors. Do people not see what their feelings towards Microsoft turns them into?
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The problem is that Microsoft is still pretending that UWP/WinUI isn't a complete mistake. All those issues are inherent to that technology.
Doesn't UWP/WinUI render using DirectX? What makes it so slow?