If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to pay, with the new changes to 40-year-old software adopting the 'freemium' model.
  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 hours ago

    It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account, and users can go as far as removing the Rewrite icon completely from Notepad. Despite the ability to still use the software without an account, Microsoft has received some criticism for implementing what is most definitely a paywall/advertisement for a built-in piece of Windows software.

  • 843563115848z@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    281·
    13 hours ago

    I found out that if you don’t like the new win11 notepad with the tabs and all the other bullshit, you can just uninstall it, and the other, older, familiar notepad that was still there all the time, will take over, file type associations and all. This even worked on my work computer, where I am not an admin.

    I was quite pleased that I could do this.

    • taiyang@lemmy.world
      12·
      12 hours ago

      Thanks for the tip. Tabs are dumb, auto saving is annoying, and notepad is literally only for tracking my thoughts since I’m a little scatterbrained. Otherwise I’m going to use a better option like sublime or ++.

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
    34·
    14 hours ago

    I’m fairly anti-AI, but I can’t imagine the use case for AI rewrite in Notepad. Word I can at least can see it, but Notepad?

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      My best guess is that it’s useful, if you specifically just have a snippet of text you want rephrased. Like, imagine you find a paper you want to plagiarize, so you copy some text, paste it into Notepad, click the rewrite-button, and then you can take it from there and paste it into your LaTeX editor. In some sense, Notepad is the minimal UI you need for that, which also starts up quickly.

  • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
    12·
    14 hours ago

    I refuse to believe this is reality.

    Imagine if this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Notepad goes subscription, and the world finally snaps.

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
    62·
    14 hours ago

    Vscode (or Codium, whatever your preferred variant is) is still free of such junk.

    People act like its an unfriendly IDE, but really, it’s a good text editor that auto detects formats and stuff. Works fast with huge text blocks. You can ignore anything complex.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      11 hours ago

      To me, it’s just weird how much hype there is about it, even though it’s a fairly standard text editor. The features you mention, I expect from any editor that doesn’t brand itself as ‘featherweight’ or whatever.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world
        11·
        5 hours ago

        I mean, VSCode is much deeper than that. To be blunt, few other IDEs, much less text editors, can compete with the critical mass its extension repo has accumulated, with, (as a random example) support for Paradox Script for game modding.