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Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by maccard »

protocolture wrote: post #470
maccard wrote: post #430

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> if you have enough resource to throw at it An i9 with 128GB RAM isn’t enough resources to open a menu?

I dont know what to tell you. I have endless user complaints at i5 16GB RAM, and none at i5 32GB RAM. Not to mention that I run 32 myself and its mostly fine. I can open menus.

I’ve got two machines for work - a desktop with an i9 and a laptop with an i7 and 32GB. The laptop is honestly a disgrace - I can’t believe it is sold as it is and marketed as a premium device. It’s “fine” for some light development but it fundamentally just doesn’t work - it misses inputs, it can’t handle chrome, regularly refuses to wake from sleep, etc. it does have an EPM solution on it which definitely makes it worse, but my 17 year old MacBook which can’t even load modern websites because safari is so out of date runs better than it.

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Post by pooploop64 »

0xy wrote: post #204
j2kun wrote: post #189

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This is my favorite part of this story. Do you want remote code execution? Because [fixing things that aren't broken] is how you get remote code execution.

I think it's more likely that Microsoft is vibe coding slop garbage to replace their core apps that were literally better. Windows 10 explorer.exe is 100x faster than Windows 11 explorer, it's not even close. It also signals the death knell for Windows native apps. Microsoft can't make them anymore. It won't be long until even Excel is a Electron sloplication.

If I have to view an image on Windows, I've long been in the habit of right clicking it and choosing "edit" to open MS Paint because it's so much better and faster than the stock image viewer. It's instant. I can't think of a metaphor that sounds worse than this in regards to how low the bar has fallen. It's just an image viewer. How hard could they possibly be making it for themselves?

Literally the best parts of Windows have been the parts they forgot existed for 10+ years and never changed.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by pooploop64 »

1718627440 wrote: post #456
matheusmoreira wrote: post #377

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The Windows computer I have to use at work takes over ten seconds to open the calculator . It literally is faster to type the calculation I want into a search engine and get the results back over the network. The new calculator even manages to screw up basic input. The old calculator accepted both commas and periods as decimal separator inputs. It just worked no matter what I typed in. The new calculator has some sor…

Off-topic, but do you know Mozilla Firefox has a builtin calculator and unit conversion in the URL bar? For my personal use I rather use python and GNU units, but I guess for most users that live in the browser instead of the terminal, this could become their default calculator. browser.urlbar.suggest.calculator = true I don't know if you need to restore the urlbar first, before that works.

qalc is also a very good tool for this. I found it recently and have been happy with it. It's not just a really advanced calculator, it's a nearly full equivalent of the Google calculator. The only thing it doesn't really do is have awareness of variables like "current US population."

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Post by jmclnx »

JohnFen wrote: post #524
jmclnx wrote: post #77

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If by vi you mean vim, then I agree, real vi is rather lite. As someone famous said, "everything is relative" :) Compared to the new applications that have been coming out, Emacs and vim are a paragon of lightness.

Vim is heavier, but vi is not at all "lite".

I do not know what you are saying. On NetBSD I see this with vi and vim editing the same file

      VSZ   RSS MAXRSS COMMAND
    13240  2896   2896 /usr/bin/vi x.txt
    45412 15212  15212 /usr/pkg/bin/vim x.txt

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by p_ing »

L0Wigh wrote: post #476
p_ing wrote: post #267

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Where have you been for the past umpteenth years of computing where even in the Linux kernel stuff is enabled by default, let alone userland applications.

Comparing Linux kernel options enabled by default for compatibility and a plague that is only useful when a user asks for it... That's wild

systemd?

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by iknowstuff »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #249

notepad is supposed to be like the 'nano' for windows. it's already bloated. But this is just following a pattern, the enshittified even calc.exe and mspaint. Previewing pictures in windows is shamefully slow because the previewer is also a bloat. My diagnosis is that Microsoft doesn't have good technical leadership. It has spread the risk of bad decisions by individual leaders by spreading it amongst too many decisi…

Which big software companies have managed to avoid this and why?

Is there anything big and exciting out there still driven by taste and vision rather than metric bumps?

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by MoonWalk »

rabf wrote: post #302
MoonWalk wrote: post #83

So the markup dialect that's widely used but suffers from a near-total lack of viewers will now finally be rendered as intended, at least on Windows? Markdown presents a chicken-&-egg scenario that has dragged on for decades: tons of Markdown documents, but almost nothing with which to simply view (not edit) them as intended. Mystifying.

https://github.com/rabfulton/ViewMD Markdown viewer for Linux

Thanks for the reference.

Re: Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown

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Post by MoonWalk »

AdrianB1 wrote: post #150
MoonWalk wrote: post #83

So the markup dialect that's widely used but suffers from a near-total lack of viewers will now finally be rendered as intended, at least on Windows? Markdown presents a chicken-&-egg scenario that has dragged on for decades: tons of Markdown documents, but almost nothing with which to simply view (not edit) them as intended. Mystifying.

I used to write documentation in Markdown manually. About a year ago I started using a VSCode extension to tell me if there are minor errors in the documents, but nothing else.

What did you expect readers to view your documentation with?
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