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Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

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Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

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Post by supermatou »

niutech wrote: post #46

Which free/open source alfernatives to WordPad for Windows do you recommend then? LibreOffice is huge and slow, MS Office Online requires Internet. How to edit simple RTF/DOC documents offline on Windows without downloading >300MB full LibreOffice suite? Only Abiword comes to my mind.

Focus Writer. Open-source, minimalist interface (but enough useful options in settings) and many more. I've been using it for years, very happy with it

https://gottcode.org/focuswriter/

Edit: Also available for Linux (deb/flatpak)

Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

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Post by xmonkee »

FredPret wrote: post #42

Off topic, but I'm loving the Mac equivalent, TextEdit. After trying every kind of fancy task management and note taking system from org-mode to Obsidian to Logseq, I now use a .rtfd (.rtf + images) on iCloud to act as a note-taking system / todo-list. I would have used pen and paper but I need to paste screenshots and URLs. There's an iOS app called RTF Write for 99c. Now I always have my notes, tasks, and shopping,…

why not use the notes app? you get in built folders and shari g options too

Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

snapplebobapple wrote: post #15
forgotmypw17 wrote: post #13

This is the sort of non-consensual change that is the hallmark of proprietary software and drives me towards using free and open-source software every chance I get. I love WordPad's simplicity, and I'll miss it.

This happens in opensource too, its just more rare. Terraform relicencing comes to mind, but there has been many, many other times too.

It happens, but there's a way out: forking.

With proprietary software, the option of forking does not exist.

Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

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Post by zamadatix »

jaclaz wrote: post #38
dawidpotocki wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did indeed add LF support to Notepad, 5 years ago: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/extended-eol-in-n...

Thank you, though now I cannot anymore honestly state that MS did not introduce any new meaningful feature in Windows 10 ;).

I know you're being sarcastic but it also introduced the virtual desktop switcher, (full) DX12, made significant improvements to the console, added real ARM support for the desktop OS, replaced IE, implemented proper DPI support (all the way to per-monitor true fractional), added openssh, actual HDR support, and many more things that can be surprisingly hard to go without if you revert to a previous release.

There is always plenty wrong with each new release but the comments and jokes about ${"LATEST_RELEASE"} of ${"SOFTWARE"} being unilaterally worse just make me think the person can't deal with something changing instead of the software actually being bad.

Comments and jokes about how they could have an entire new release worth of features just bringing back what they've removed or reverse-improved over the years however... that I agree with ;).

Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

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Post by paradox460 »

FredPret wrote: post #42

Off topic, but I'm loving the Mac equivalent, TextEdit. After trying every kind of fancy task management and note taking system from org-mode to Obsidian to Logseq, I now use a .rtfd (.rtf + images) on iCloud to act as a note-taking system / todo-list. I would have used pen and paper but I need to paste screenshots and URLs. There's an iOS app called RTF Write for 99c. Now I always have my notes, tasks, and shopping,…

TextEdit dates all the way back to NeXT

Re: Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

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Post by dTal »

Tao3300 wrote: post #45
goalieca wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There’s a million and one offline open source solutions that are higher quality than wordpad.

Which do you suggest? If it doesn't have rich text support, isn't lighter than anything in the OpenOffice family, and is as unstable as AbiWord, don't bother saying it.

Calligra Words looks nice. I trust anything KDE.
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