Notepad++ and never look back.
Crying in Linux 😢
Use Kate
I’ll give it a try, thanks!
You will use vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are
:x
Oh my
Just use nano or vim
its not the same as notepad :(
Right, they’re better. :)
You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won’t be exactly integrated experience, but it works.
vscodium, gedit?
just use geany or something else…u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++
Notepadqq
Kwrite
Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.
Keep going M$! You’re the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍
Just use KDE’s Kate, it’s so much better in every way
maybe not kate but kwrite. kate is a code editor
KWrite hasn’t been released by KDE on the Windows app store, Kate has. Using the app store means seamless updates in the background.
Maybe KWrite is available on winget which would make it a bit less inconvenient than manually downloading each update.
Edit: KWrite isn’t available on winget
C:\> winget search kwrite
No package found matching input criteria.
For coders, yes, but for writing down a quick note or something is nice
Love Kate on Linux, but is it just me that Kate on Windows is extremely slow to open compares to literally everything, even Sublime? My system has i7-12800HX and everything is installed on gen 4 NVMe SSDs so specs shouldn’t be an issue.
Is nothing sacred?
At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).
And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.
And most Linux distributions have a simple text editor shipped with their desktop environment (i.e. Kate or GNOME Text Editor).
I use vim, but there are simpler editors if you want something CLI, like nano or pico.
Yep, I’ll typically use vim or nano for editing existing files, but when in just want to make a quick temporary note or fiddle with some plain text it’s the graphical one that came with the DE.
Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.
Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.
The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).
Maybe windows should just fully embrace containers for as much backwards compatibility as possible.
Microsoft is in conflict with itself if web apps, modern native apps, or classic native apps are the future. That’s why even different Microsoft applications feel as or even more disconnected from each other than using KDE applications under Gnome.
No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!
Wtf you have to login to use notepad now? Wtf???
But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?
Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!
It should also highlight code!