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In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 25 May 2025
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I use Neovim, BTW.
I shall take a peek. I don't plan on upgrading to W11 so notepad won't even be a thing anymore anyways.
KWrite is what you want
Oh wait, if you are not familiar with Vim or Neovim, then this won't be for you probably. It works completely different compared to a regular text editor and is somewhat complicated and for terminal. There are benefits to it why that is, but just so you know its not a "normal" editor. This is just a warning. :D
In example the keys
h,j,k,lare used to move the cursor in the editor and every key is a special command basically. You have to switch into editing mode to type in text.I tried vi in college and still haven't been able to exit. (exaggeration, of course, but dear god, that made Notepad seem user friendly) When in Linux, I tend to use Kate and nano.
Yeah, you kinda need to know this before opening it. I was first introduced to vim in a uni course, so it was written out in the assignment text. But with emacs I had to throw the comouter away.
Actually Vi is not Vim. Vim is a lot user friendly with its documentation. The question is, what you expect and if you learn it properly. Its not unser unfriendly, its just different. It's like saying GIMP is user unfriendly, because you used Photoshop before and GIMP is not exactly the same.
end of my rant :D
I've used vim in the past, normally stuck with nano though. It won't be a big shock with how different it is. My daily driving is current windows so never bothered with much else other than notepad++ but come October I'm formatting all drives in my house to rid myself of anything windows related and starting fresh with some Linux flavor. Most likely ubuntu or mint, haven't settled yet
Ubuntu=Corporate Trashware Nothing there you can't find in a Distro that doesn't pimp its suckers out like attention whores. Remember that free does't mean without cost, just that it gives you all the liberty in choice you may may have. Ubuntu will serve its corporate agenda of development and ignore all users that the translation team of corp-speak. Labelled for show, "Customer Service" and will describe in a very clever way to perauade you to believe fucking anything. That that doesn't evoke purpose to matter while they will bloody to the dirt. Soaking to any further past the sole vaccuum and justifying your disregarded wah-wah-wah.
Are you able add anything as to why ubuntu is trash other then 'corporate trashware'?
Genuinely curious on a rational reason on why you say to avoid it. You kinda lost me at corporate agenda followed up by anger rant.
I'm planning on using it because it's not windows, has a huge userbase so answers when things go wrong are easier to come by, I just want it to work in the sense that I don't want to constantly tinker with it or spend hours on forums researching a problem to be met with angry self centered individuals who assume you know as much as they do.
I don't personally care about very niche uses for the os. I really don't. If I need something specific for a project, I'll spin up a vm and load up debian and run with that for greater control..but for videogame playing, checking email and using discord.. I don't really see why I'd bother with more complex or to add frustration to my life when it's not necessary.
If you would be so kind as to please enlighten me, I'd appreciate it..because at the end of the day, it's not Microsoft.
It's like saying that last line you make. While being techically correct, you are either an ignorant sucker or a corporate whoremonger. The you're using all these deceptive and misleading socopathic tool press marks en display. That display is literally on your showcase in the former rendition of expressors , implanted onto your face skin like a brand's possession stamp explaining to every other "person" that the corporation possess your soul. In the latter, you hold the brand stamp in your buckled belt holster like a .9 that make kids smile because it's painted like a candly land character that has this tiny little magnifyingly examimable...registered tradmark. Impactable at any and every attempt to go stop reincarnation via...The Matrix (R)
But ok, kick dirt my direction when you feel all sensitive to implications narrating your bound and paid for agreeement to do the job for miniscule trick fabrc exerbating delusion from your own choice to subcribe to this line of the sole path of existence.
It's ok. You don't need to know what I'm talking about to continue accepting the savor tingling lushed in front of you during every attempt you make to understand anything else. It's ok. I don't really care. I'm just doing it because it can work if you mean but that's on you too.
I cycled through a number of distros a few years back on my mini HTPC before finally settling on KDE Neon. The amount of customization with panels and such is insane. I started by trying to recreate the Windows experience (which is dead simple) but soon branched out to having multiple panels, which can be autohidden individually. Settings on the left side of the screen, power options on the right (both set to hide), system tray up top, and the task manager at the bottom.