They're really pushing the Paint3D app, the Mixed Reality Viewer and the Photos app to take over Paint's roles and beyond. As for Wordpad they probably will deprecate and disable to gently nudge people to online Office 365 cloud subscriptions. Another reason I suppose is to decouple these apps from Windows system so their replacements can be updated through the store instead of waiting for OS feature updates.
Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
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Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#22Microsoft is confused.
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#23Makes sense - if you don’t need them why have them installed. I wish operating systems had better ways to let you install less stuff .
Yeah like 90% of the live Linux distros would be much smaller if they cut GIMP and LibreOffice
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're also turning Notepad into an optional feature
I don't get why they still provide you with the stupid notepad. Just throw it away and preinstall Visual Studio Code as a text editor, Notepad is useless.
Maybe I don't want an electron based text editor gobbling up hundreds of megabytes of ram when a native one using a few megabytes works just fine?
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#25Makes sense - if you don’t need them why have them installed. I wish operating systems had better ways to let you install less stuff .
They should not preinstall any software, and let you install them at the first boot. Windows 10 comes with so much bloatware preinstalled that you then have to waste time to remove, I want just nothing.
Well a fresh Windows install actually contains far less apps or useful software compared to a typical Linux distribution install. The bloat is almost certainly because of OEM rubbish.
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#26They're really pushing the Paint3D app, the Mixed Reality Viewer and the Photos app to take over Paint's roles and beyond. As for Wordpad they probably will deprecate and disable to gently nudge people to online Office 365 cloud subscriptions. Another reason I suppose is to decouple these apps from Windows system so their replacements can be updated through the store instead of waiting for OS feature updates.
Paint3D is an atrocious, poorly-designed app. Tools are all over the place, familiar shortcuts have disappeared, and the UI looks like it was designed for the Windows 8 vision of Windows-on-a-tablet. No thanks. WIN+R, mspaint, ENTER--every time.
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
They're also turning Notepad into an optional feature
I don't get why they still provide you with the stupid notepad. Just throw it away and preinstall Visual Studio Code as a text editor, Notepad is useless.
There are environments where you can’t install additional. It’s a real problem if you don’t have notepad. It would actually be really nice if they beefed it up a little.
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#28They're really pushing the Paint3D app, the Mixed Reality Viewer and the Photos app to take over Paint's roles and beyond. As for Wordpad they probably will deprecate and disable to gently nudge people to online Office 365 cloud subscriptions. Another reason I suppose is to decouple these apps from Windows system so their replacements can be updated through the store instead of waiting for OS feature updates.
Paint3D is an atrocious, poorly-designed app. Tools are all over the place, familiar shortcuts have disappeared, and the UI looks like it was designed for the Windows 8 vision of Windows-on-a-tablet. No thanks. WIN+R, mspaint, ENTER--every time.
Use rufus to burn a linux iso and install over the top. No more windows. Really need something? Run it in wine.
Break away from Microsofts abusive ecosystem.
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#29Makes sense - if you don’t need them why have them installed. I wish operating systems had better ways to let you install less stuff .
It doesn't make sense. Paint and notepad provide basic functionality and are less than a megabyte (and the size could be optimized more). Making them optional provides zero real-world benefit, with the downside that now some systems now have no way to edit a text file.
Re: Windows 10 to offer Paint and WordPad as optional features
#30Makes sense - if you don’t need them why have them installed. I wish operating systems had better ways to let you install less stuff .
Now are the Candy Crush ads going to be optional?
They actually are but it's on by default. The setting is called "Show suggestions occasionally in Start".