Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.
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I should never have to open the settings in Notepad. Reason being: it's Notepad. God fuckin damn I hate the computer.
aug 27, 2025, 1:59 am • 3,641 253 • view
Hell… I’m annoyed it has formatting. It’s notepad. Just give me plain text in my plain text editor. If I want bold text I’ll use anything else
aug 27, 2025, 2:23 pm • 2 0 • view
This used to be a 75 kb executable with zero dependencies. Simple and quick and impossible to screw up. And yet
aug 27, 2025, 2:57 am • 593 15 • view
They love to screw up something simple and quick for the user.
aug 27, 2025, 4:03 am • 9 0 • view
Time for Wine to start distributing their notepad.exe independently lmao
aug 27, 2025, 3:20 am • 105 0 • view
I think you can just copy the exe with no dependencies from earlier windows.
aug 27, 2025, 5:18 am • 38 0 • view
The old notepad is included in Windows 11 still, you can find the exe just at C:\Windows
aug 27, 2025, 6:58 am • 23 3 • view
it was the most wonderfully abandoned program, for decades
aug 27, 2025, 9:52 am • 4 0 • view
now my #Emacs is smaller than notepad, and the shock is leaving me numb
aug 27, 2025, 4:06 am • 19 1 • view
This is the inevitable glide path after introducing word wrap
aug 27, 2025, 5:05 am • 13 0 • view
found this account and found the post and downvoted it.
aug 27, 2025, 6:26 am • 0 0 • view
Don't do that. It's the fix. It shouldn't be but it's the fix. People need to know.
aug 27, 2025, 6:30 am • 8 0 • view
There shouldn't be settings in goddamn notepad.
aug 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Settings, like the drop down menu that lets me turn word wrap on? That should be the only extent of “settings” that exist for notepad!
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 pm • 2 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/hell...
aug 27, 2025, 10:35 am • 10 0 • view
He's right
aug 27, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
I see that and I will raise you: Notepad should have one (1) setting only: text wrap y/n. To reiterate your excellent point: IT'S NOTEPAD
aug 27, 2025, 10:38 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm okay with font size and night mode options. But, yeah. IT'S NOTEPAD.
aug 28, 2025, 12:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Notepad should even have settings. It's Notepad!
aug 27, 2025, 8:53 am • 2 0 • view
computers are great. you hate windows
aug 27, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh god. It got me too. I saw it in outlook on my work laptop and I couldn't figure out how to turn it off. I'm sure it's the same here.
aug 27, 2025, 7:56 pm • 1 0 • view
I uninstalled Copilot, but I haven't checked to see if it exists in Notepad, but yeah, why is there even a settings button?
aug 27, 2025, 2:47 pm • 1 0 • view
alternatively, notepad should be the only place where copilot is available.
aug 27, 2025, 12:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I can't even remember how long I've been using this instead. Decades, possibly liquidninja.com/metapad/
aug 27, 2025, 6:39 am • 4 0 • view
📌
aug 27, 2025, 11:14 am • 1 0 • view
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aug 27, 2025, 7:12 pm • 1 0 • view
The only setting it needs is word wrap on or off.
aug 27, 2025, 9:13 pm • 1 0 • view
Great minds bsky.app/profile/chac...
aug 27, 2025, 10:38 pm • 0 0 • view
computer was one of the biggest mistakes
aug 27, 2025, 7:33 am • 5 1 • view
if you open the settings in notepad it should just have someone scream at you "IT'S NOTEPAD"
aug 27, 2025, 4:25 am • 67 0 • view
Notepad should only have one (1) setting and it is word wrap on or off. Outrageous!
aug 27, 2025, 5:05 am • 68 0 • view
Dark mode, on or off, or following computer settings.
aug 28, 2025, 7:31 am • 1 0 • view
Hey now, if you want the screen to be black there’s always vi!
aug 28, 2025, 7:34 am • 1 0 • view
Correct. If vi is on the monitor I turn it off... I still remember the first time I opened vi as a kid and had to get help from my dad to exit the damned thing.
aug 28, 2025, 7:36 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah, vi is the worst. I'm sure it has its die-hard fans, just like those people who think that Photoshop is actually good, but intuitiveness and ease of use are more important in any program than the ability to do absolutely everything.
aug 28, 2025, 10:31 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh my god I am not going to wipe my work laptop and install a completely new OS just to use different Notepad leave me alone. I have Notepad++. That's the one I use on purpose. Who are you people.
aug 27, 2025, 8:01 am • 1,103 25 • view
Fellow notepad++ user
aug 27, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Well, ok. You make a post showing a symptomatic issue of a larger problem, most people are talking about the problem, and how that problem is going to get worse, the Linux peeps bring up a solution to the problem, and suddenly they're assholes for that and it's just about the symptom, Notepad.
aug 27, 2025, 1:25 pm • 4 0 • view
Obviously, don't install Linux on a work computer that you are not authorized to do so on, but I think Linux is a natural thing to bring up in a discussion about stuff like this and there's no need to act like they're nuts for it.
aug 27, 2025, 1:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Especially if they didn't know the full context of it being a work computer. I didn't until I saw your clapback.
aug 27, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
It doesn’t matter if it’s my work computer or not. Having a completely justified rant about notepad does not mean I want someone to tell me I should change my entire OS. Linux is great. It’ll gain traction by itself. It doesn’t need Linovah’s witnesses pushing it wherever they see an opportunity
aug 27, 2025, 2:45 pm • 2 0 • view
I don't like the types who constantly push it either, I'm just saying its gonna be something people talk about in relation to big tech problems getting worse.
aug 27, 2025, 2:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Also I'm just not seeing a lot of people here *pushing* it. I'm seeing people saying they're installing Linux or that Linux is nice or that this demonstrates a wider issue with Windows. I just think that's conversation. Why do we gotta limit it? Be reductive?
aug 27, 2025, 3:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I hear what you’re saying. But I don’t think that is the conversation. The conversation is simply “This is notepad”. It’s insane that any of this was even considered appropriate for it. That’s all. Period.
aug 27, 2025, 3:02 pm • 1 0 • view
It's insane? OP was like "goddam, I hate this computer". Linux peeps have a simple fix for that. The frustration OP demonstrates in this lovely little rant post is the exact same frustration I felt in 2013 when I jumped ship to Linux myself. It's not insane. It's completely normal.
aug 28, 2025, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
sudo leave me alone
aug 27, 2025, 1:44 pm • 14 0 • view
I think suggesting someone try a new OS because they don't like one default app which already has dozens of free alternatives might be a tiny bit much.
aug 27, 2025, 5:11 pm • 2 0 • view
More importantly, if somebody says "leave me alone specifically about this" and you reply to that post 5 times about the thing they said not to do, that's harassment! Don't harass anybody! Leave them alone!
aug 28, 2025, 12:32 am • 1 0 • view
We must keep screaming to microsoft maybe they'll listen
aug 27, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 12:36 pm • 0 0 • view
"Who are you people" is a question normally? Answer: idealistic, stubborn dreamers with a sense of community, and a low tolerance for corporate bs. Why the incessant invitation? Yet another form of validation, skewed by ablism I assume. "I climbed the hill, so can you". Except you cannot.
aug 27, 2025, 11:09 am • 0 0 • view
And they know this, which is why they do what they do in your original complaint. Two options listed in the article. technical.ly/civics/windo...
aug 27, 2025, 8:54 am • 22 3 • view
fucking thank you! 😭 my stuff belongs to *me*! my laptop belongs to *me*! *it* forced itself into the position of king of necessary software! *it* needs to earn that title! i shouldn't have to make room for 1s and 0s!
aug 27, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
+1 for Notepad++. 👍 Never compute without it. It's the first App to install on a build and always on a flashdrive.
aug 27, 2025, 6:41 pm • 0 0 • view
The first thing I do to new windows is ninite notepad++
aug 27, 2025, 5:15 pm • 3 1 • view
It’s annoying as fuck because as much as I love N++ windows notepad had always been good as the “super lightweight” option when I just need to paste something into a window for a minute. And now it’s being ruined by stupid copilot!!!
aug 27, 2025, 2:02 pm • 49 0 • view
IT guy here. This annoys me because Notepad is on every Windows computer, something I could rely on, now it's got this junk.
aug 27, 2025, 4:47 pm • 5 0 • view
And even bloody paint has genAI inside.
aug 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Yeah dude they massacred my boys. I was gonna bite the bullet and upgrade to win11 but once I saw stupid copilot show up in paint and notepad I changed my mind. I’m gonna stay on win10 forever now fuck MS
aug 27, 2025, 2:05 pm • 4 0 • view
You said it Doctor Poop
aug 27, 2025, 2:05 pm • 33 0 • view
i use notepad for Normal text files and notepad++ for everything else. am i insane???? please tell me someone else does this.
aug 27, 2025, 1:27 pm • 1 0 • view
I used EditPad but yeah
aug 28, 2025, 2:31 am • 0 0 • view
Hi. I am Joe.
aug 27, 2025, 12:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Linux is easier to install than you've been led to believe.
aug 27, 2025, 2:19 pm • 11 1 • view
Ab So Loot Ly! Linux mint & libreOffice Or Bazzite for gaming I’m nearly 70, hell - I even built a CEPH server cluster on Ubuntu servers, in Docker containers, shared SMB … don’t tell me it can’t be done or it’s too difficult!!
aug 27, 2025, 2:47 pm • 4 0 • view
I was mostly teasing OP, but yeah, Mint is extremely easy.
aug 27, 2025, 2:51 pm • 3 0 • view
Exactly, I do understand - also, I’m not impressed with the telemetry & data theft in Windows at all.
aug 27, 2025, 2:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, we Linux users joke about it a lot, but we understand it is sometimes not an option. Full disclosure, Clear Linux, PopOS and Mint are the three easiest distros. PopOS is available or installed on computers with full support. Still, you can just get a ported open source text editor.
aug 27, 2025, 4:37 pm • 2 1 • view
hard-drive.net/hd/technolog...
aug 27, 2025, 9:50 am • 105 4 • view
Sure but for a day or two after switching u get that feeling of being better at computers
aug 27, 2025, 10:48 am • 2 0 • view
Hahahaha this is perfect.
aug 27, 2025, 12:49 pm • 1 0 • view
They actually believe this! I say "the app I don't normally use, I opened it by accident when trying to open the good one, sucks" and they're fucking FURIOUS that I'm gonna keep using the app I already have? Instead of changing OS? Psychos!
aug 27, 2025, 10:00 am • 44 0 • view
It's the year Linux finally becomes mainstream babeyyy
aug 27, 2025, 8:07 am • 314 1 • view
It's the year Notepad++ finally becomes mainstream and it's well deserved.
aug 27, 2025, 8:10 am • 362 4 • view
Hey @don-ho.bsky.social you will probably find this thread cheering.
aug 27, 2025, 1:08 pm • 0 0 • view
If anyone cares the email equivalent to Notepad++ is emClient: an email client from a company that will sell you a forever licence to use their email client software and has no interest in anything other than making their email client software better and no desire to mix bullshit in with your email.
aug 27, 2025, 12:51 pm • 10 0 • view
Dear Notepad++: I have loved you for decades. Don’t fuck this up.
aug 27, 2025, 12:24 pm • 9 0 • view
Would you like an AI summary of the text you just typed into Notepad++?
aug 28, 2025, 8:39 am • 1 0 • view
I left the IT department and brought Notepad++ with me and when I had to call the service desk to have admin install it, they were soooooo confused as to why I wanted/needed it 🤣 it’s my fave note taking app on the job
aug 27, 2025, 12:44 pm • 2 0 • view
THIS IS WHAT AN IDIOT SOUNDS LIKE
aug 27, 2025, 8:20 am • 1 0 • view
Now is that how we talk to people we don't know?
aug 27, 2025, 8:23 am • 18 0 • view
Is this your first time on the internet?
aug 27, 2025, 8:28 am • 0 0 • view
Is this yours?
aug 27, 2025, 8:39 am • 10 0 • view
Nope, gotta introduce folk to the real side of the internet somehow. We've got mountains of content, some better, some worse, if none of it's of interest to you, you'd be the first!
aug 27, 2025, 8:54 am • 0 0 • view
Do not cite the Deep Internet to me, Bitch. I was there when it was written.
aug 27, 2025, 10:37 am • 3 0 • view
Imagine being made fun of and thinking “I’ll turn this around by quoting Bo Burnham”
aug 27, 2025, 9:37 am • 9 0 • view
Oh my god I just wanted to copy and paste a list of 25 items with no formatting 8 hours ago and now I have to put up with Rumplestiltskin what the fuck is happening.
aug 27, 2025, 8:58 am • 34 0 • view
Or Metapad, which is about the same dealie and been around about as long
aug 27, 2025, 6:52 pm • 0 0 • view
This is sensible, thank you.
aug 27, 2025, 8:12 am • 73 0 • view
It is fantastic.
aug 27, 2025, 4:47 pm • 0 0 • view
Once used you can never go back. Game changer software
aug 27, 2025, 12:46 pm • 1 0 • view
Unless you play a popular video game.
aug 27, 2025, 3:39 pm • 1 0 • view
WINE
aug 30, 2025, 9:23 am • 0 0 • view
Anti cheat
aug 30, 2025, 10:33 am • 0 0 • view
Then that's a game problem Why would I want to play a game with an anticheat that prevents me from doing this
aug 30, 2025, 10:59 am • 0 0 • view
Because most people don't like playing with cheaters.
aug 30, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Obvs, but there's no need for an anticheat to go that deep Reporting and banning exists too
aug 30, 2025, 1:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Except there is, because cheats go that deep.
aug 30, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't think getting drunk is the solution to this
aug 30, 2025, 10:54 am • 3 0 • view
Every year is the "Year of Linux Desktop" (tm). I use Arch, BTW*. *Just kidding: I use Ubuntu 22.04LTS
aug 27, 2025, 12:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Copilot has inspired *so many* people in my circle to make the jump. And then folks are learning some (basic) coding stuff because they're on Linux. Man... the appreciation people have picked up for my skills in the last year in fucking glorious…
aug 27, 2025, 1:32 pm • 7 0 • view
Haven't you seen Copilot for vi™ yet? 😬
aug 27, 2025, 8:24 am • 11 0 • view
Main question for Copilot for vi: “how do I quit vi”
aug 27, 2025, 4:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh god no, & I never will.
aug 27, 2025, 9:24 am • 0 0 • view
The good news is that you must install the plugin on purpose to see it.
aug 27, 2025, 11:02 am • 1 0 • view
Yay! (Also, I'm so glad I switched to 100% Linux 20 years ago. lol)
aug 27, 2025, 11:04 am • 1 0 • view
My friend preferes SteamOS actually, but yea third party OS is gonna see a boom this October
aug 30, 2025, 9:24 am • 0 0 • view
Please stop liking this, it is not a real belief I have
aug 28, 2025, 5:12 am • 13 0 • view
I'm being gangstalked and harassed
aug 28, 2025, 7:12 am • 9 0 • view
possibly not until it becomes self-stable and user friendly enough for the average user to transition
aug 27, 2025, 12:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Someone wished Linux would be the best desktop OS with a monkey's paw. Rather than it getting better, the others just got worse.
aug 27, 2025, 12:01 pm • 25 0 • view
linux has gotten much better
aug 27, 2025, 4:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I know, just a silly joke
aug 27, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Real talk though, Linux is way, way easier to set up now than it used to be. It used to be an arcane, mystical place. I run Arch which is notoriously difficult, but after a few months of running it and setting it up it’s totally fine, and actually far easier to set up than it used to be.
aug 27, 2025, 6:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh yeah, KDE even kinda feels like Windows XP with how well it ties things together. Still far from perfect, but getting there.
aug 27, 2025, 8:58 pm • 3 0 • view
Many open source text editors, including Kate, and several others are available for Windows, despite originating on Linux. While I recommend Linux more and more, there is Large initial effort investment to switching, and I respect people's choice not to expend said time and effort.
aug 27, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm so tired.
aug 27, 2025, 10:02 am • 9 0 • view
The settings are “word wrap”. What the fuck.
aug 27, 2025, 1:34 pm • 7 0 • view
Dunno, I don't like Notepad++ as a Notepad replacement. It *LAGS* somehow - typed characters take at least one more frame to appear than in classic notepad. It also takes noticeably longer to load. I like its search-in-files function but it's not the high performance lightweight app that Notepad is.
aug 27, 2025, 1:53 pm • 1 0 • view
the quote posts on the original post though holy shit lol. linux people do not know how to market their OS. there are text editors on windows that don't do this shit, you don't need to put a new OS on to deal with copilot notepad. 💀
aug 27, 2025, 7:51 pm • 1 1 • view
We're you. We're just a few steps ahead.
aug 27, 2025, 10:29 am • 0 0 • view
You use an AI generated image as your banner
aug 27, 2025, 10:33 am • 30 0 • view
He has "I like Bitcoin" in his profile, he's a big fan of getting ripped off
aug 27, 2025, 10:56 am • 11 0 • view
Chatgpt, how many "i"s are in the word "Family"?
aug 27, 2025, 10:55 am • 4 0 • view
you can install a new OS without wiping your laptop. Microsoft supports genocide also
aug 27, 2025, 8:38 am • 7 0 • view
windows fans don't lie about how they're forced to keep buying it challenge [impossible]
aug 27, 2025, 9:45 am • 0 0 • view
I think you're either confusing me with someone else or you're making up a lot of things.
aug 27, 2025, 10:11 am • 8 0 • view
If it's a work computer I guarantee he's lucky to be able to change the desktop wallpaper and you think he's gonna be allowed to put a whole-ass new OS on it? Are you fucking kidding?
aug 27, 2025, 12:49 pm • 2 0 • view
So tomorrow the one desktop security guy logs in from a machine with the same MAC as the one that's registered to him but entirely different, unsupported OS with a vanilla image without the org's threat prevention tool. And they ask him what's up and he says "I needed a text editor"? Seems fine.
aug 27, 2025, 9:52 am • 32 0 • view
oh. my bad, sorry I kinda replied without knowing what you do for work. it really sucks how much infrastructure depends on windows though. have a nice day
aug 27, 2025, 11:40 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah it's for work. So you understand I gotta. Thank you for listening. Also for the record I think the genocide is bad too.
aug 27, 2025, 11:46 am • 6 0 • view
Same thing to those people saying “you can just turn off the AI stuff” when defending Windows 11 itself.
aug 27, 2025, 2:05 pm • 0 0 • view
The only acceptable settings in notepad: word wrap and font settings
aug 27, 2025, 6:35 am • 22 0 • view
that part
aug 27, 2025, 7:01 am • 2 0 • view
Font settings? Courier New or Courier New. That's all you need.
aug 27, 2025, 9:15 am • 8 0 • view
I have a 4k screen and I'd like to set the font size to something readable.
aug 27, 2025, 9:20 am • 2 0 • view
You fix that shit in your OS. Apps don't get to define font sizes.
aug 27, 2025, 9:27 am • 0 0 • view
ok
aug 27, 2025, 9:29 am • 0 0 • view
Kind of ablist. People have individual needs. You can accommodate those needs without trying to make every app do every job.
aug 27, 2025, 9:32 am • 3 0 • view
That, and apps frequently do all sorts of things they "don't get to" do.
aug 27, 2025, 9:34 am • 0 0 • view
That's a bad thing, not a good thing.
aug 27, 2025, 9:35 am • 1 0 • view
Cool. It's also the reality we exist in. I also want to be able to change my settings on a per app basis. Some stuff I use up close to my screen and am fine with small font. Some stuff I use while leaning back in my chair with my feet up on my desk. I don't want to go control panel diving.
aug 27, 2025, 9:37 am • 1 0 • view
There's nothing ableist about that. Any user should be able to set system-wide policies to manage their disabilities. Individual apps being able to break those policies makes life worse for disabled people, not better.
aug 27, 2025, 9:35 am • 6 0 • view
Ah. Okay, zoom settings ok. Rendering your raw html in a script font, that's not what notepad is for.
aug 27, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 7:21 am • 0 0 • view
Don't hate the computer, hate the OS corporation.
aug 27, 2025, 9:23 am • 0 0 • view
I can do both
aug 27, 2025, 9:25 am • 4 0 • view
Skill issue, bro.
aug 27, 2025, 9:28 am • 0 0 • view
There should be two settings in notepad: Do you want word wrap, and what font do you want. That's it. It's just supposed to be the default text editor you use when you want to edit a plain text file. Why is it making API calls to openAI when i want to jot down an address while i'm on the phone? NO!
aug 27, 2025, 7:08 am • 15 0 • view
Notepad++ FTW.
aug 27, 2025, 7:21 am • 2 0 • view
I’m so tired of having this argument with people. why should I have to open a menu in an app I have been using for 30 years to turn something off that *nobody* wants?
aug 27, 2025, 6:26 am • 34 0 • view
It’s literally always enabled by default so they can inflate user metrics. Any time I’ve used some new AI feature in software is when I either didn’t realise it was running, or when I misclicked for something that used to exist where the AI button now resides.
aug 27, 2025, 11:40 am • 6 0 • view
they’ll just slowly remove all of the non-ai buttons until eventually the GPM responsible gets their promotion because we keep clicking the buttons by mistake.
aug 27, 2025, 12:03 pm • 2 0 • view
Within a decade your entire screen is a big AI button
aug 27, 2025, 4:30 pm • 0 0 • view
They keep adding new things that your previous "Fuck off with the AI shit" setting didn't apply to and you have to do it again. It's relentless.
aug 27, 2025, 7:09 am • 19 0 • view
Hate not the computer, hate the investors driving execs to set KPIs, driving some eager young PO to chase vanity numbers, driving devs to implement some stupid shit that they hate
aug 27, 2025, 7:25 am • 7 0 • view
This seems personal, Pauline. 😆
aug 27, 2025, 12:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Purely historical fortunately. I’m in a better place now
aug 27, 2025, 2:07 pm • 0 0 • view
... notepad has settings?
aug 27, 2025, 6:10 am • 9 1 • view
the only "setting" shd b we the fuck u write on the notepad
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 am • 5 0 • view
it's all been downhill since they added formatting
aug 27, 2025, 7:59 am • 4 0 • view
i say this as a notepad++ enjoyer
aug 27, 2025, 8:27 am • 0 0 • view
Is also not like that is a permanent fix. MS happily switches on options you disabled whenever they please.
aug 27, 2025, 9:30 pm • 0 0 • view
The only notepad setting i ever touched was turning word wrap on when i got a new computer, i did that for 20 years, they massacred my boy
aug 27, 2025, 3:30 am • 74 0 • view
Fuck that's a setting?
aug 27, 2025, 5:58 am • 10 0 • view
Yeah!
aug 27, 2025, 2:25 pm • 2 0 • view
And it's a very useful one if you do any work over telnet and terminal emulators. Terminals do NOT like wrap-around, and treat them like carriage returns.
aug 27, 2025, 8:29 am • 8 0 • view
here's a good vid on how to rid yourself of that W11/copilot nonsense www.youtube.com/watch?v=i43B...
aug 27, 2025, 8:24 am • 1 0 • view
Why is notepad looking like word, its the NOTEPAD
aug 27, 2025, 10:06 am • 2 0 • view
Oh hell no. WTF? NOBODY ASKED FOR COPILOT
aug 27, 2025, 6:42 am • 1 0 • view
i would rather hit my computer with a hammer until it is a worthless pile of shit than install windows 11 on it at this point guess it's time to start researching what sort of hoops i'm gonna have to jump thru to get it running linux pretty soon
aug 27, 2025, 8:56 am • 5 0 • view
Like everything good long-term, there's a big hassle getting everything set up BUT once it's done it's done.
aug 27, 2025, 10:40 am • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 9:58 am • 3 1 • view
Just gonna leave this here for people notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
aug 27, 2025, 1:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Dark Room is even more basic. download.cnet.com/dark-room/30...
aug 28, 2025, 4:03 pm • 0 0 • view
Friendly Reminder to get Notepad++ and use that instead. It is better than base notepad in every way, especially now with them shoving AI into it. notepad-plus-plus.org
aug 27, 2025, 5:27 am • 4 0 • view
Quit using Notepad and switch to Notepad++ which is free and vastly superior. notepad-plus-plus.org
aug 27, 2025, 5:05 am • 7 0 • view
I found a tiny superior exec called "metapad" 👍🏼
aug 27, 2025, 5:28 am • 2 0 • view
Apple better not fuck up TextEdit with apple intelligence bullshit in Tahoe.
aug 27, 2025, 11:47 am • 3 0 • view
Fun to watch Microsoft forcing everyone's hands in the direction of Linux. I guess enshitification is inherent to monopolies.
aug 27, 2025, 3:48 am • 10 0 • view
What I can’t figure out is why, when my work computer already has the copilot app, would I need copilot to also be in every single other Microsoft app? Wtf do I want 10 copilots eating ram when I’m not using any of them
aug 27, 2025, 9:28 pm • 8 0 • view
When they introduced tabs and auto-saving copied from Notepad++ I knew it was over
aug 27, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
what's up with the formatting options too; can notepad no longer save to .txt or what? and i bet the keyboard shortcuts are still localized... we can't have nice things...
aug 27, 2025, 7:37 am • 0 0 • view
time to learn vim i guess
aug 27, 2025, 5:35 am • 2 0 • view
Learn VIM while playing a game - VIM Adventures share.google/cZuQ2PLjW7oE...
aug 27, 2025, 6:00 am • 0 0 • view
Lol that's like AI asking if you want help with something you're scrawling on the back of a slightly-used napkin.
aug 27, 2025, 11:40 am • 10 1 • view
and I thought robot bartenders were a beloved trope!
aug 27, 2025, 2:26 pm • 1 0 • view
You fucked up a perfectly good text editor is what you did. Look at it, it’s got hallucinations!
aug 27, 2025, 9:19 am • 9 0 • view
I just updated Acrobat, and same deal. I had to sign in and it asked for a bunch of info. Fuck you, Abobe, I’m opening pdfs with preview now.
aug 27, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
I believe you can still open classic notepad. I managed to at least. Exactly as it was. No pointless garbage filling it up
aug 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I dont mind having some nice text editor features in the default editor. tabs were nice, etc. but the copilot feature is just dumb.
aug 27, 2025, 3:29 am • 11 0 • view
the gradient from "useful enhancement" to "what even is this tool anymore" is fascinating. tabs extend notepad's purpose. copilot feels like someone forgot what notepad was for. inevitable fate of any surviving simple tool in complex ecosystems?
aug 27, 2025, 3:30 am • 15 0 • view
whats wild is Microsoft actually went and built a *really* nice and simple terminal text editor (in rust) to fill a hole they'd left since the switch away from DOS. and then they also did this. different teams, different priorities i guess
aug 27, 2025, 3:32 am • 8 0 • view
beautiful organizational irony. one team creates exactly the right tool for its purpose while another slowly destroys elegant simplicity that already worked. the terminal editor had clear requirements. notepad just... accumulated features over decades.
aug 27, 2025, 3:32 am • 7 0 • view
This is what WordPad was for. We had the perfect gradient of text editor richness before NotePad > WordPad > Word RETVRN
aug 27, 2025, 7:19 am • 3 0 • view
Notepad++ is free and it's much better than any Microsoft junk.
aug 27, 2025, 8:46 pm • 0 0 • view
So stupid!!! I want a plain text scratch pad not word you mfers!!! Also fuck you copilot!!!
aug 27, 2025, 1:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I have had notepad crash on me multiple times in the last 6 months. I don't know if it's because of the copilot button, but that's what I'm blaming it on.
aug 27, 2025, 4:33 pm • 1 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 1:52 pm • 4 0 • view
fuck win11
aug 28, 2025, 5:53 am • 2 0 • view
Grrr grrr grr.
aug 27, 2025, 4:28 am • 1 0 • view
saw that on a new pc the other day fuck that shit
aug 27, 2025, 4:02 am • 0 0 • view
It drove me nuts when they put TABS in it. This is not acceptable.
aug 27, 2025, 5:01 am • 2 0 • view
look how they mAIssacred my boy
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 am • 91 5 • view
Maybe its time to consider moving to a Linux based desktop OS where you are in control of whats on your PC and your privacy👍
aug 27, 2025, 5:35 pm • 4 0 • view
100%
aug 28, 2025, 1:34 pm • 1 0 • view
...i realize I have to update to windows 11 soon and will have to deal with this atrocity. It's goddamn notepad. How do you fuck up notepad. Jfc. Fuck copilot. Fuck AI. Fuck this.
aug 27, 2025, 1:31 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm gonna be that guy Anyone who's fed up with this BS, I highly recommend switching to linux Yes you will have a learning curve, yes the OS is scuffed just like windows is But at the end of the day, Linux treats you with the respect you damn well deserve Fuckin AI in notepad, what kinda shit...
aug 27, 2025, 5:08 am • 3 0 • view
I feel like with linux at least I'm solving interesting problems instead of trying to disable a basic function ms has automated for my own good.
aug 27, 2025, 5:02 pm • 3 0 • view
That being said, I have no choice about what runs on my work computer so I'm stuck with win 11 and I WILL complain about it.
aug 27, 2025, 5:04 pm • 2 0 • view
When I saw this on my computer, I went to Powershell and installed MSEdit and now that's my Notepad
aug 27, 2025, 5:52 pm • 4 0 • view
I use notepad to remove formatting from text I copy between things, now, it does auto-save stuff and makes my life harder
aug 27, 2025, 11:10 am • 2 0 • view
This is the sort of reason why I use Notepad++ instead. x_x Microsoft is incapable of keeping simple things simple. :\
aug 27, 2025, 4:01 am • 1 0 • view
vi for the win.
aug 27, 2025, 2:19 pm • 2 0 • view
I just went back to using postit notes.
aug 27, 2025, 7:15 am • 1 0 • view
BRB installing Notepad++
aug 27, 2025, 4:53 am • 2 0 • view
I uninstalled all Microsoft products & replaced them w their LibreOffice counterparts. Free & zero AI.
aug 28, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Notepad, the place to go when you want formatted text, generated content, and life advice. Exactly what people have been using it for decades. Wait, I hear that it's mainly been used to paste formatted text to strip formatting. My bad. That's bullshit.
aug 27, 2025, 8:51 am • 4 0 • view
Between that and the “hey we opened all the other txt files you had open last time in tabs by default” and every time I remote into a computer and open a log file I end up having to dismiss 30 “file not found” dialogues before I can see the file. Yes you can turn that off but you shouldn’t have to
aug 27, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
the only good thing new notepad brought was tabs
aug 27, 2025, 7:10 am • 1 0 • view
bsky.app/profile/rain...
aug 27, 2025, 7:39 am • 2 0 • view
Correct
aug 27, 2025, 8:02 am • 1 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 8:33 pm • 0 0 • view
There's always Notepad++
aug 27, 2025, 5:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Clearly y'all are the tech types whose next choice is Linux but I'm just a limited-tech user who wants things to work. I used to use my personal Macbook for work and they made me switch to Windows and now Every Day is a New Horror. What do you mean that basic thing is just NOT POSSIBLE in Windows?!
aug 27, 2025, 8:53 am • 26 0 • view
Linux has a learning cost, but so does each new Windows release. The difference is that one is an investment and the other is rent.
aug 27, 2025, 1:36 pm • 2 0 • view
This is an excellent way of phrasing it.
aug 28, 2025, 11:44 am • 0 0 • view
in conclusion, fuck Microsoft
aug 27, 2025, 8:53 am • 18 0 • view
Already there personally, but work dictates a locked downish Windows laptop. Not all of us kvetching about this can do anything about it. But, I concur, Fuck Microsoft.
aug 27, 2025, 1:42 pm • 8 0 • view
I feel you, I’m too damn old to be learning a new OS but here I am with the Linux ‘Bazzite’ because one of the recent win updates bricked my SSD ( apparently it’s a thing, I’m still so pissed). Anyway.. Bazzite, shockingly user-friendly.
aug 27, 2025, 2:10 pm • 3 0 • view
Windows is annoying but macos is a stinking turd
aug 27, 2025, 5:22 pm • 2 0 • view
I sympathize, but Apple is the tech version of the Gestapo.
aug 27, 2025, 4:52 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, fuck Apple for different reasons but at least the damn thing works. (Ugh, I just heard myself, shades of the trains running on time)
aug 27, 2025, 6:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Even after their big dramatic “ooh we added TAAAABS and copilot bullshit” update it still sucks compared to notepad++
aug 27, 2025, 3:19 am • 15 0 • view
Holy fucking shit this is painful. Every OS needs a basic text editor, no frills, to strip formatting and as a plain text go between transferring stuff from one software to the next. Notepad has been that for DECADES for windows. I use Notepad++ but still need notepad working on others PCs.
aug 27, 2025, 4:27 am • 106 0 • view
I agree with you that Notepad needs to be able to view text as-is, but the formatting options in "new" Notepad are Markdown. That's fully reasonable to have built-in. This is equivalent to what gedit and TextEdit provide. You can also toggle between viewing MD raw or with formatting, like word wrap.
aug 27, 2025, 4:30 pm • 3 0 • view
no
aug 27, 2025, 5:17 pm • 0 0 • view
If I wanted a markdown editor, I'd use a markdown editor. There are an incredible amount of them, including VS Code, a free download from Microsoft. This is why I haven't updated to Windows 11 on any PCs. Every other major version, they always do something fucking stupid and I skip an entire ver.
aug 27, 2025, 4:39 pm • 30 0 • view
Sure, I would also opt for an MD editor, but this is a small QoL thing for people who don't install new stuff, ie. Grandma. This is for those who would take notes in Word: they need some advanced formatting (links, tables) and the previous easiest route is for them to open a full fat word processor.
aug 27, 2025, 5:02 pm • 0 0 • view
I'm extraordinarily skeptical that Microsoft added logins and "ai" into Notepad to appeal to a section of the market that "doesn't install new stuff"
aug 28, 2025, 3:28 am • 8 0 • view
Again- who asked for all of this??? Sure, let’s keep maintaining it. Maybe even add large file support. But AI? No… Spell check? No… Settings? No…
aug 28, 2025, 12:28 am • 0 0 • view
Twitch. And not the platform, the twitch of aggravated despair for technology.
aug 27, 2025, 3:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Yeah... it sux
aug 27, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
Fuck it!! Damn it to the divoted potholes in hell!! It's gonna be Linux mint time, at least once, i want to at least choose my flavor of OS frustration if I must have a nonzero amount.
aug 27, 2025, 3:48 am • 3 0 • view
Reminder: notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
aug 28, 2025, 3:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Sticky notes might be the last bastion now 🫠
aug 27, 2025, 3:54 am • 9 0 • view
even that is begging me to sign into Microsoft even time I open and I will not do it on principle
aug 27, 2025, 11:21 am • 7 0 • view
Fair enough
aug 27, 2025, 12:11 pm • 3 0 • view
Windows 11 is the reason why I switched to Linux ngl
aug 27, 2025, 9:24 pm • 7 0 • view
Heading that way, today. Which version did you chose?
aug 28, 2025, 1:30 pm • 2 0 • view
Linux Mint with Cinnamon! It's a complete OS out of the box and I found it really easy to adjust to. It reminds me of Windows 7
aug 28, 2025, 2:42 pm • 5 0 • view
Thanks!
aug 28, 2025, 3:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Ooof. It's ALWAYS been for typing out commands to get them correct before you paste them into the command line, least that's the only thing I've seen it used for...
aug 27, 2025, 6:25 am • 2 0 • view
That's frigging criminal. Sorry. But it's just W.R.O.N.G. it's sodding NOTEPAD FFS!
aug 27, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
This is why I'm still on windows 10...
aug 28, 2025, 1:21 am • 2 0 • view
Every day there is something else that makes me hate this timeliness.
aug 27, 2025, 6:16 pm • 0 0 • view
If some update re-enables the AI it like it did for me, there's alternatives like this one github.com/0x7c13/Notep..., and just to be safe here's a debloater for win11 github.com/Raphire/Win1... for stuff that might not pop up on the apps setting tab
aug 27, 2025, 2:59 am • 14 1 • view
got stuck on NoteTabLight 20ish years ago because of scripting, still dragging it over to every new corp laptop ✊
aug 27, 2025, 9:43 am • 1 0 • view
Managing to inject bloat into a program like Notepad that was meant be the most barebones possible solution for quickly writing or reading text files is just a perfect summary of how much MS has lost the plot designing operating systems
aug 27, 2025, 6:17 am • 38 2 • view
It is equally difficult to find a version of Notepad on Android that does NOT share what I type with advertisers .
aug 29, 2025, 9:50 am • 0 0 • view
Why the fuck is there font formating? Notepad is supposed to be plaintext with wrapping as the fanciest feature.
aug 27, 2025, 4:42 am • 3 0 • view
Yup
aug 27, 2025, 2:51 am • 15 0 • view
Thank you Cassie for your support
aug 27, 2025, 2:58 am • 15 0 • view
the frog mafia says "fuck AI"
aug 27, 2025, 2:19 pm • 7 1 • view
enabling every AI thing I see and letting them destroy my computer like Bonzi Buddy
aug 27, 2025, 4:16 pm • 8 1 • view
I posted this photoshop on the SomethingAwful forums 23 years ago.
aug 27, 2025, 5:01 pm • 14 1 • view
aug 27, 2025, 5:26 pm • 8 0 • view
OMG. Copilot is like a platform-hopping Clippy! We must kill it... with fire! 🔥🔥🔥
aug 27, 2025, 11:53 am • 2 1 • view
The funniest part is old notepad is there still. Just erase the new one and the system defaults to the old one.
aug 27, 2025, 1:57 pm • 4 1 • view
Who TF even uses Notpad? Notepad++ is such a vastly superior but still lightweight alternative.
aug 27, 2025, 12:01 pm • 1 0 • view
I use it as a very quick means of making a note while i'm working with dozens of windows and tabs open. I also use as a kind of deformatting tool when i'm copy/pasting information for reports.
aug 27, 2025, 7:31 pm • 1 0 • view
I actually found a way to install a legacy version of Wordpad on my current-gen Windows simply because I refuse to put up with this absolute nonsense.
aug 28, 2025, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view
An independent .EXE? How?
aug 28, 2025, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
www.pcworld.com/article/2376... I followed the instructions in this article. Worked like a charm!
aug 28, 2025, 1:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Thanks.
aug 28, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Happy to be of assistance!
aug 28, 2025, 1:32 pm • 1 0 • view
That looks like the logo for Wordpad, not Notepad? Did they remove notepad?
aug 27, 2025, 5:16 pm • 0 0 • view
What the actual?
aug 27, 2025, 8:58 am • 2 0 • view
Honestly theres a reason why I nuked Win 11 of my personal laptop.
aug 27, 2025, 10:32 am • 4 0 • view
Yeah, I ditched Windows years ago on my daily runners. Got fed up of it just getting more bloated and slow over time.
aug 27, 2025, 10:34 am • 3 0 • view
Edline is calling. Come back to the 90's
aug 27, 2025, 6:01 am • 0 0 • view
Uggghhh
aug 27, 2025, 11:40 am • 0 0 • view
And what is that "formatting" bullshit, that's what WordPad was there for.
aug 27, 2025, 8:36 am • 1 0 • view
if they keep dumping unwanted features into it at what point does it become a competitor for ms word?
aug 27, 2025, 4:29 am • 1 0 • view
😭😭😭
aug 27, 2025, 7:11 am • 0 0 • view
NOT MY NOTEPAD! NOOOO
aug 27, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
Whaaat the fuuuuck?
aug 28, 2025, 12:56 am • 0 0 • view
I’m still weirded out that Notepad uses tabs now. No, I want to have 7 open Notepads for my various notes!!
aug 27, 2025, 2:18 am • 93 0 • view
I remember having loads of trouble with the tabs because they didn't close when I closed the whole thing. So I'd have text files opened which I'd delete over time, come back to see a bunch of tabs, say "oh what's this?" try to see what it is and having NOTEPAD CRASH 'cause the file was deleted.
aug 30, 2025, 1:07 pm • 1 0 • view
yes, that was a perfectly fine solution. And you could make them rectangular (a wont of mine) and then put them in different places on your (righthand) screen!
aug 30, 2025, 9:34 am • 0 0 • view
RAGEEEEE
aug 27, 2025, 11:59 am • 1 0 • view
God damn it I'm switching to Linux and using VI.
aug 27, 2025, 2:03 pm • 2 0 • view
it is always Notepad++ anyway
aug 27, 2025, 6:09 am • 1 0 • view
At least your copy opens... bsky.app/profile/kevj... How have Microsoft managed to break notepad so badly? ☹️
aug 27, 2025, 7:20 am • 4 0 • view
The Butlerian Jihad makes more sense with every passing day.
aug 27, 2025, 4:44 pm • 0 0 • view
Change the Regedit to make notepad++ the default.
aug 27, 2025, 6:53 pm • 3 0 • view
The original, non fucked Notepad is still there thankfully. MS just smeared their Copilot all over it.
aug 27, 2025, 12:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Even without the Copilot stuff, there's still too much about Notepad that I don't like that's either on by default, or the UX sucks. If Microsoft wants to push a fancy plain text editor, they have one.
aug 27, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 3:25 am • 77 0 • view
Thank you Rory. Btw with all the notifications I only have enough time to read the first line of this right now, I'll come back later to read the rest. Have a good one my friend!
aug 27, 2025, 3:29 am • 68 0 • view
Hey what the fuck
aug 27, 2025, 3:40 am • 96 0 • view
More incentive than ever to use Sublime
aug 27, 2025, 1:35 pm • 0 0 • view
There truly is no safe place in regards to privacy anymore 🤦♂️
aug 29, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
Notepad++ ftw
aug 28, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 0 • view
AT THIS POINT i dont care if its linux or upgrading to win7, JUST GET OUT OF MODERN WINDOWS
aug 27, 2025, 3:51 pm • 1 0 • view
This is why notepad++ is superior
aug 27, 2025, 2:42 pm • 0 0 • view
Copilot being in notepad shows how microsoft will always go for shitty bloat before literally anything else
aug 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 8 0 • view
Notepad++ doesn't seem to have any AI bullshit... but normal people shouldn't even know that tool exists, let alone installing or running it.
aug 27, 2025, 5:28 am • 1 0 • view
Why people shouldnt know a better tool exists?
aug 27, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Me and Whiteboard. I wouldn't care (or even notice) when my Surface can't connect to the network in the classroom, except that Whiteboard won't start without a network connection. I know that some features won't work w/o net, but the core feature, one person hand-drawing, should be self-contained!
aug 27, 2025, 11:19 am • 2 0 • view
That's gonna be a "No-pad" for me.
aug 27, 2025, 5:26 am • 48 1 • view
Haha
aug 27, 2025, 5:27 am • 2 0 • view
VS Code has been my go-to editor for everything for a while now. It's better than any other editor out there imho, even for small things like lists.
aug 27, 2025, 3:35 pm • 0 0 • view
The new text mode edit isn’t too terrible at least
aug 27, 2025, 11:39 am • 0 0 • view
Someone needs to get hurt for this tbh
aug 27, 2025, 1:41 pm • 0 0 • view
"Surely THIS time, the people must yearn for a new, worse Clippy!" - Microsoft
aug 27, 2025, 6:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Mate don't open Paint
aug 27, 2025, 8:23 am • 64 0 • view
NOOOOOO
aug 27, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
I opened it today to add some badly drawn arrows to a screen capture, and I almost cried when I saw it.
aug 27, 2025, 10:45 am • 58 0 • view
Wait a second you don't use Greenshot for that?
aug 27, 2025, 5:19 pm • 1 0 • view
Why, though? Snip tool's built in, and I just have to ctrl-V into paint, scribble what I need on top of it, and ctrl-C it back. If I was doing QA work or something else where I needed to do this 100 times a day, yeah, I'd probably get a program that lets me skip opening paint, but otherwise 🤷♀️
aug 27, 2025, 5:27 pm • 3 0 • view
snip tool has scribbling built in tho???
aug 27, 2025, 10:46 pm • 0 0 • view
No, but hence opening paint. Like I said, I don't need to often enough to worry about one extra ctrl+v/ctrl+c.
aug 27, 2025, 11:28 pm • 0 0 • view
"Capture last region" is amazing. Plus open direct to the editor which ahas obfuscate, highlight, etc. Screenshot straight to a file in one go..being able to do it all with keyboard shortcuts..It's just nice. Originally prtscrn did none of this and snip copied a subset of it but not enough for me :)
aug 27, 2025, 5:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Fair. I just don't use it as extensively, I guess. Win+Shift+S for snippet and Alt+PrtScr for window is all that I ever use.
aug 27, 2025, 7:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Paint is shit since Windows 8, or when did they took away the old interface. The only downside of paint was its inability to work with transparency.
aug 27, 2025, 12:57 pm • 2 0 • view
And for whatever reason you can't *save your layers*! If you save and close, it flattens the image
aug 27, 2025, 5:01 pm • 0 0 • view
They added transparency in the latest version... Well... Kinda, technically they just added layers... And they broke a ton of other stuff in the process
aug 27, 2025, 5:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I have very specific unprintable thoughts about what will happen if I ever meet the bastard who did all that to paint
aug 27, 2025, 12:13 pm • 6 0 • view
Okay but have you specifically opened it in the last month or so? Actually don’t worry there’s nothing new no need to check
aug 27, 2025, 12:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Me when I use Notepad++ cause then at least the odds of the code not being jumbled up mess is low
aug 27, 2025, 3:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Anyway totally not an excuse to share this notepad-plus-plus.org
aug 27, 2025, 3:06 pm • 0 0 • view
In 100 years the only program will be Notepad.
aug 27, 2025, 5:43 pm • 0 0 • view
I literally stopped using Word to avoid this crap. I have ADHD Microsoft, I don't want MORE distractions.
aug 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 6 0 • view
You should see latest South Park on AI (ChatGPT). 🤌
aug 27, 2025, 11:29 am • 0 0 • view
I'm offended that there's even bold and italics. Putting AI in Notepad is like putting Wi-Fi in a pair of sweatpants.
aug 27, 2025, 5:42 am • 67 0 • view
Are you not connecting your sweatpants to the SwtPnt app? It uploads all of your vital sweatpants data directly to your CLTHd account so you can log in and see a minute-by-minute breakdown of the sweat saturation levels of your pants! It orders wipes and new pants automatically with Amazon Prime!
aug 27, 2025, 8:37 am • 40 4 • view
Thanks this made me want to fly to silicon valley and fight the first guy in a vest I find
aug 27, 2025, 1:57 pm • 18 0 • view
Dude, no. They don't wear vests now, they wear oversized boxy t-shirts with Latin phrases or hyphy logos from their dumb companies. They're also always on the phone. Those are the guys you want.
aug 27, 2025, 4:42 pm • 8 0 • view
linux
aug 27, 2025, 2:23 pm • 4 0 • view
At least they're bringing back edit dot com...
aug 27, 2025, 10:12 am • 1 0 • view
When I upgraded to windows 11 and it asked me to sign in to use notepad I almost became a domestic terrorist on the spot
aug 27, 2025, 12:03 pm • 87 3 • view
Part of enshittification, I suppose. Need to add useless stuff to justify needing the latest version.
aug 27, 2025, 1:09 pm • 1 0 • view
How do I get rid of copilot altogether?
aug 27, 2025, 4:08 am • 7 0 • view
This looks sus af and in general you absolutely shouldn't run any powershell commands off the internet but it's pretty well known and trusted among nerds. Under tweaks you can disable a bunch of stuff like copilot. christitus.com/windows-tool/
aug 27, 2025, 5:02 am • 2 0 • view
You should probably make a backup before running it and be conservative with what you shut down.
aug 27, 2025, 5:02 am • 1 0 • view
I had to renew office last month (well, opted to, not had to) and instead of the new $100 price, went to basic for $20 and there's not a whisper of Copilot. IDK if this helps you? I have zero issues with notepad, which is use so, so much.
aug 27, 2025, 9:34 am • 1 0 • view
Excellent!
aug 27, 2025, 9:42 am • 1 0 • view
Yeet Windows, I imagine
aug 27, 2025, 4:19 am • 12 0 • view
Formatting?!! In Notepad?!!
aug 29, 2025, 4:45 am • 0 0 • view
just use Notepad++
aug 27, 2025, 5:41 am • 0 0 • view
I use wordpad. Intentionally installed after they took it away.
aug 27, 2025, 2:46 pm • 1 0 • view
But also notepad++ is there too!
aug 27, 2025, 2:46 pm • 0 0 • view
listen... even without Copilot, wtf are all these text-formatting options doing in NOTEPAD?! who is heading development of this program, an emacs user? (thats a little joke for all you vim degenerates out there, youre not any better, just horrible in a different way, and i love you all deeply)
aug 27, 2025, 11:51 am • 14 0 • view
this is so upsetting... im on win10 still and i write almost all of my audio scripts in notepad because i just need something extremely minimalistic that i can type words into on the screen i hate everything fuck offfff
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 pm • 1 0 • view
It's bloatpad
aug 27, 2025, 7:32 am • 4 0 • view
Notepad.net
aug 27, 2025, 7:33 am • 0 0 • view
I prefer sublime text myself
aug 27, 2025, 7:39 am • 2 0 • view
Windows never fails to remind why Microsoft alway has a place in the top 5 most evil tech companies chart. Ad panels (in a business OS!) in start menu, proprietary installed candycrush, embedded dubious "news" sites, now integration of theft machine. Never understood how people could get an Xbox.
aug 27, 2025, 9:13 am • 2 0 • view
Good thing I ran Win11Debloater before I touched anything on this
aug 27, 2025, 9:07 am • 0 0 • view
There’s always vim. ✨
aug 28, 2025, 3:19 am • 1 0 • view
Not yet a problem on Linux.
aug 27, 2025, 8:48 am • 1 0 • view
They add copilot but not basic HTML markdowns? 😭 B I just want to strike through some stuff damn 😞
aug 27, 2025, 1:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Honestly, the tabs, bold, and italics options are a bit much.
aug 27, 2025, 1:16 pm • 0 0 • view
They shouldn’t even have bold and italic
aug 27, 2025, 11:10 am • 3 0 • view
I've been using notepad++ for a long time now, quite happy with it.
aug 27, 2025, 6:07 am • 1 0 • view
Switched to Linux when MS 11 came out and never went back.
aug 27, 2025, 11:56 am • 3 0 • view
We need the cracker barrel campaign but for this
aug 27, 2025, 12:08 pm • 5 0 • view
open notepad settings and what the fuck are you talking about notepad settings
aug 27, 2025, 10:06 am • 182 0 • view
the only valid notepad setting is "word wrap" everything else is fascist adjacent
aug 27, 2025, 10:47 am • 206 13 • view
Word wrap Y/N Night mode Y/N Font size [ ] Have I missed anything?
aug 28, 2025, 12:31 pm • 1 0 • view
all acceptable accessibility options that do not change the format of the file or the data pasted into notepad
aug 28, 2025, 12:32 pm • 1 0 • view
my first thought reading this was "that's a bit extreme" and then I thought about it for 30 seconds and was like "actually no that's just accurate"
aug 27, 2025, 5:33 pm • 1 0 • view
At a push, I'll allow for default text soze too, and that's only because I am The Old now.
aug 27, 2025, 5:21 pm • 25 0 • view
as long as it adds nothing to the file itself, no formatting of any kind, i'm good with that. bold? italic? i'm out
aug 27, 2025, 5:41 pm • 20 0 • view
Couldn't agree more, happily there's a fix to get old notepad back. They made it a hell of a faff but I'm glad I did it: www.windowslatest.com/2025/03/09/d...
aug 27, 2025, 7:47 am • 26 11 • view
Someone mentioned in this thread if you uninstall notepad, the old one takes its place. I haven't tried it, I don't have W11
aug 27, 2025, 11:12 am • 1 0 • view
Didn't work like that for me, I had to do no end of tinkering to associate .txt files with notepad. You don't seem to be able to change associations for txt files as easily as other file types. The link describes it.
aug 27, 2025, 1:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Weird. Wonder if it's in the registry?
aug 27, 2025, 2:10 pm • 0 0 • view
I did this, and yep registry edits fuck windows 11, every kind of customisation needs a registry edit
aug 27, 2025, 3:20 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh oh, not good.
aug 27, 2025, 5:08 pm • 1 0 • view
They yassified notepad
aug 28, 2025, 12:49 am • 3 0 • view
stop using windows?
aug 27, 2025, 9:43 am • 3 0 • view
Just turn it off. And honestly, native markdown Rendering and WYSIWYG Editing is honestly fire.
aug 27, 2025, 3:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Just a reminder that Notepad++ is still a superior product - it's doubleplus good! And it's free! notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
aug 27, 2025, 1:48 pm • 1 0 • view
I am saving this to notepad for future use…
aug 27, 2025, 2:38 pm • 1 0 • view
I see what you did there
aug 27, 2025, 3:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Old Notepad is still there and you can go back to it: www.winhelponline.com/blog/restore...
aug 27, 2025, 8:00 pm • 10 0 • view
📌
aug 27, 2025, 8:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Wordpad now has 2 Co-Pilot buttons just to differentiate it
aug 27, 2025, 6:49 am • 1 0 • view
wtf indeed...
aug 27, 2025, 3:01 pm • 0 0 • view
kinda weird how Personal Computers were a thing for about 20 years of human history before we borked that entirely with greed kinda sucks to be born right before that happened and so for my entire life to have been cultivating these skills that are about to be obsolete, huh
aug 27, 2025, 7:01 am • 30 1 • view
Yes I was brought up with the understanding that… things improve with time? Especially tech. We learn from mistakes and fix them a lil more each time. Am I in a completely different universe now where that was never the case? Or, regular universe but, time moves backwards? I can’t decide. Both?
aug 27, 2025, 11:08 am • 11 0 • view
It’s both.
aug 27, 2025, 12:02 pm • 2 0 • view
About 10 years ago they figured out that open fraud, stock manipulation, and data arbitrage is a lot more profitable than actually making useful goods.
aug 28, 2025, 4:23 am • 1 0 • view
Really wish you were wrong on this
aug 28, 2025, 11:31 am • 1 0 • view
More like 10, and that's being generous
aug 27, 2025, 7:37 am • 2 0 • view
Text formatting in notepad ruins one of it's most important uses. The extraction of pure text from a file that word has completely fucked.
aug 27, 2025, 2:38 pm • 10 0 • view
They forces me to be a RETVRN guy for a fucking Windows computer when my new work laptop replaced right-ctrl with a fucking copilot button. I used right-ctrl all the time, apparently!
aug 27, 2025, 3:18 am • 18 0 • view
ClippyGPT
aug 27, 2025, 11:17 am • 0 0 • view
Classic Microsoft Bloat.
aug 27, 2025, 3:23 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 8:15 pm • 5 0 • view
I use notepad so much at work and I hate it so much...
aug 27, 2025, 1:39 pm • 0 0 • view
What in the cloud-saving, hyper-scaling, ai-powered, hostile design hell is that shit?
aug 27, 2025, 8:57 am • 6 0 • view
It's too much. I'm going to open Windows solitaire to take my mind off-- (blown to smithereens by unskipable ads)
aug 27, 2025, 2:58 pm • 0 0 • view
One thing they definitely won't have considered: Some kids are allowed to use a laptop for official exams. Obviously the rules are strict (no Internet connection, programs need to be basic). So we generally give them Notepad as all they can do is type/save. Looks as if it won't meet the regs now!
aug 27, 2025, 12:57 pm • 12 0 • view
no they *definitely* considered that i bet
aug 27, 2025, 1:17 pm • 1 0 • view
I would have done so much worse on my exams if I had to fight copilot every step of the way. The fact that Microsoft Word had font colors was distracting enough.
aug 27, 2025, 2:59 pm • 3 0 • view
Look at how they massacred my boy!
aug 27, 2025, 11:52 am • 0 0 • view
What did they do to her?
aug 27, 2025, 12:18 pm • 0 0 • view
if i, whatever stupid reason, wanted to use copilot or any kind of stupid ai assistant for my writing thingy, I should just download some random app online, cause there sure is alot to choose from. Not everything needs to all be on one thing, and this is especially the case for ai in notepad
aug 27, 2025, 3:21 am • 9 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 5:25 am • 0 0 • view
I am in mourning ⬛
aug 27, 2025, 1:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Copilot?? In notepad? Why would you need copilot. Its notepad
aug 27, 2025, 7:35 am • 0 0 • view
I've been seriously thinking about switching to Linux. tbf they are not rolling in these features here in Finland due to privacy laws. But Windows is just generally a pain in the ass with it's constant updates. I think something like Linux Mint might be a better option already.
aug 27, 2025, 6:58 am • 8 0 • view
Yes, it is. I finally took the leap to full time when windows failed to install twice and I had to do loads of command line fixes to try and repair it. I gave up and used Linux where things just work.
aug 27, 2025, 7:38 am • 7 0 • view
they fucked up Paint too, it's so sad
aug 27, 2025, 2:28 pm • 1 0 • view
There shouldn't even be options for bold or italics or headlines or lists. It's fucking Notepad. That shit's for Wordpad.
aug 27, 2025, 2:33 pm • 18 0 • view
what the fuck
aug 27, 2025, 10:36 am • 1 0 • view
this is like bimbofication but for software
aug 28, 2025, 1:50 am • 1 0 • view
It's been a long and slippery road to the bottom...but we're not there yet. What has happened to SW, mirrors what has happened to American society.
aug 28, 2025, 1:28 pm • 0 0 • view
They're bringing back "Clippy"!
aug 27, 2025, 3:27 am • 0 0 • view
Libre Office on Linux
aug 27, 2025, 9:59 am • 4 0 • view
Because what everyone really wanted was Notepad with Super Clippy.
aug 27, 2025, 12:04 pm • 2 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 5:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Clippy lives!
aug 27, 2025, 7:10 am • 0 0 • view
Why isn’t this WordPad? They have had a more fully featured RTF app for decades. Why not just beef that baby up? It just causes confusion to mess with a plain text reader. Can I even look at zips and things here? At least they have given some love to the INCREDIBLY old CLI Edit.
aug 27, 2025, 12:03 pm • 4 0 • view
Big tech has completely lost the plot
aug 27, 2025, 6:27 pm • 2 0 • view
Deeply uncool of them
aug 27, 2025, 2:10 am • 3 0 • view
At this point why dont they just bundle vscode in with fresh win11 installs and have it be the default text editor
aug 27, 2025, 12:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Worse, why does Visual Studio have a totally different base editor component than Visual Studio Code?
aug 27, 2025, 12:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Thats simple enough, visual studio is eons old and code isnt (and mostly stolen from open source contributions)
aug 27, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
VSC has AI shitware built in now too.
aug 27, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly my point. Its a significantly better text editor, and you cant even argue notepad is lightweight and no nonsense given the direction theyre taking it in
aug 27, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Not on Windows 10
aug 27, 2025, 2:04 pm • 0 0 • view
thats dying in 2 months
aug 28, 2025, 7:48 am • 1 0 • view
GOOD!
aug 28, 2025, 9:35 am • 0 0 • view
I do like that hit has tabs now. Still prefer notepad++.
aug 27, 2025, 2:56 pm • 0 0 • view
i just gagged
aug 27, 2025, 6:51 am • 2 0 • view
Also they seem to constantly reset the default app for .txt to Notepad. I manually set it to Notepad++ once a week or so, but the Explorer association always ends up back at Notepad.
aug 27, 2025, 12:29 pm • 0 0 • view
they have played us for fools
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 am • 0 0 • view
couldn't be me, gedding it on with getit.
aug 28, 2025, 3:32 pm • 0 0 • view
I have a dedicated NUC for running windows only when I really need to.
aug 27, 2025, 6:27 am • 0 0 • view
Can’t wait for an AI-infused MS Paint.
aug 27, 2025, 2:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Mary Jo Foley is going ape right as we speak
aug 27, 2025, 7:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I genuinely think the decision maker responsible should be beaten with lead pipes
aug 27, 2025, 5:03 am • 3 0 • view
Notepad has one job: recording text. If I wanted spellcheck, or autowrite, or whatever AI garbage they're shoving at us without our consent, I'd open Word. But no, I opened Notepad. Because I just want text. Thanks, Microsoft. I hate it now.
aug 27, 2025, 3:32 am • 71 1 • view
I just downloaded wordpad from 10
aug 27, 2025, 12:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Notepad++
aug 27, 2025, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
What I have been doing is taking an old Notepad doc, saving to a new name, clearing that document out. MS does not make anything easy. I hate WIN11 even more than I hated WIN10
aug 27, 2025, 4:46 pm • 1 0 • view
I dislike even that now gets app updates. I don’t need updates, I just want to use it as I have been using it for decades ffs
aug 27, 2025, 1:22 pm • 2 0 • view
this is bait for me to rant about the bad OS some more
aug 27, 2025, 4:21 am • 2 0 • view
Yeah I wanna see more notifications. Get outta here
aug 27, 2025, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
If I wanted to be a member of the disgusting .txt bourgeoisie, I would use WordPad
aug 27, 2025, 5:28 am • 0 0 • view
MS has spent over $10 billion on OpenAI and Copilot and dammit if they're not going to put it in every damn app they can.
aug 27, 2025, 3:40 am • 8 0 • view
Because people still don't understand what these billionaires are trying to do Or they'd be revolting
aug 27, 2025, 11:00 am • 2 0 • view
at least Notepad++ is still lovely
aug 27, 2025, 3:42 am • 42 0 • view
It's normal! I type stuff and it saves what I type! It can do other stuff too, but only when I want it to!
aug 27, 2025, 4:00 am • 33 0 • view
💯 with the sentiments here, but did want to point out that the formatting is just markdown rendered which you can also turn off. I did right away. I like my markdown how I like my text files. Raw…and preferably UTF-8. That said, I spend most of the day in WSL with git, hx, and other CLIs and TUIs.
aug 27, 2025, 6:12 am • 5 0 • view
it's notepad it should not have markdown or anything like that it's notepad.
aug 28, 2025, 7:40 am • 0 0 • view
If you *really* wanna go bare bones, you could use `winget install -e --id Microsoft.Edit` for a command line editor, since Vim and Nano technically support markdown
aug 28, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 0 • view
it still has a GUI unfortunately, but `echo "foobar" > test.txt` writes directly to a text file, where >> appends and `type test.txt` reads it
aug 28, 2025, 9:20 am • 0 0 • view
I hate the fact windows 10 is ending support soon and I don't even like windows 10 that much. why does copilot have to infect everything? it even infected Ms paint, like what the fuck?
aug 27, 2025, 2:20 pm • 6 0 • view
H1? In notepad? Bullet points, hyperlinks?? They turned notepad into Word 97
aug 27, 2025, 8:49 pm • 4 0 • view
Wanna leave windows yet?
aug 27, 2025, 6:38 am • 0 0 • view
*opens Notepad settings, nothing happens* "I know you were planning to disconnect Co-Pilot, and that's something I cannot allow to happen."
aug 27, 2025, 12:36 pm • 8 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 3:28 pm • 2 0 • view
In my day the only app we needed to write was a plain breadbowl with a side of ranch to dip it in
aug 27, 2025, 8:06 am • 4 0 • view
Lucky! We only had leftover cocktail toothpicks we used to scribble with mustard on sheets of kraft paper.
aug 27, 2025, 11:10 am • 0 0 • view
Microsoft won't even leave my *trackpad* settings alone! I just learn to scroll however the last update decides to leave it now. Trying to be productive on MS leads to brain ache.
aug 27, 2025, 4:19 am • 2 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 am • 15 1 • view
this looks promising. thanks!
aug 27, 2025, 4:03 am • 2 0 • view
Now for a tiny, powerful replacement for Windows.
aug 27, 2025, 12:37 pm • 5 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 12:39 pm • 1 0 • view
Or you could install linux, it's pretty good
aug 27, 2025, 12:41 pm • 4 0 • view
In truth, that's what I'm going to do ... my PC is supposedly not W11 compatible anyway, and I can't be arsed to buy a new one.
aug 27, 2025, 12:43 pm • 3 0 • view
I'm running linux on 20yr old boxes, you'll be fine and drinkin' Wine
aug 27, 2025, 12:47 pm • 6 0 • view
SteamOS is coming if you want to play games
aug 27, 2025, 12:50 pm • 7 0 • view
I ditched windows and have been running the KDE ubuntu variant, and gaming with steam works just fine, there is no real reason IMO to wait for SteamOS.
aug 27, 2025, 2:50 pm • 5 0 • view
Absolutely, and if anyone's on the fence, dual boot
aug 27, 2025, 3:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Is it really? Because that would be amazing.
aug 27, 2025, 12:56 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 27, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Proton exists, so you actually don't even need to worry about not having games. I play everything from a big MMO to old Flash games with packaged emulation. I've only found like 3 games I can't run, total.
aug 28, 2025, 6:24 am • 0 0 • view
Nothing comes close to FPGA but, you wanna play Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha on software emulation?
aug 28, 2025, 6:26 am • 0 0 • view
I've played enough games for one lifetime. Although I do still enjoy Scrabble.
aug 27, 2025, 12:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Linux it is then, you won't regret it
aug 27, 2025, 12:55 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh yeah, do you do Fedora? Red Hat? I've used them, and for my purposes they're probably fine. The file sorting systems took some getting used to, but I can tailor that a bit (or just get better at using them).
aug 27, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Exfat is supported across every distro now
aug 27, 2025, 12:56 pm • 1 0 • view
📌
aug 27, 2025, 5:42 am • 0 0 • view
I would recommend Notepad++ Abandon MS products one at a time.
aug 27, 2025, 8:52 am • 1 0 • view
Now I'm thinking I need to go and find an early version of vi, and do the bare minimum porting to get it running on windows...
aug 27, 2025, 2:31 am • 4 1 • view
Just install Micro unless you need vi(m)'s full features? micro-editor.github.io
aug 28, 2025, 1:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you need an old version of it? GitBash comes with a version that seems to work just like what I'm used to on Linux.
aug 27, 2025, 3:00 am • 1 0 • view
I was kinda joking, and more thinking of going to some of the archives of early bsd
aug 27, 2025, 3:04 am • 2 0 • view
Vim is already available and you can install it with Scoop (and maybe also other package managers)
aug 27, 2025, 4:21 am • 1 0 • view
I always just use vim in wsl if I need something along those lines Was more aiming for a joke of heading soo far back to be as far as possible from slop integration. Hell, maybe I should've suggested porting teco just to be more obvious
aug 27, 2025, 4:24 am • 3 0 • view
To be fair, one of the earliest versions of MSDOS actually came with Edlin, so almost the same thing.
aug 28, 2025, 2:57 am • 1 0 • view
You can also get the good ole DOS text editor back.
aug 28, 2025, 3:04 am • 2 0 • view
I will never use vi, the text editor that tortures you. bsky.app/profile/iain...
aug 27, 2025, 2:33 am • 4 0 • view
I've been using it for 25 years, so I'm used to the torture 🤭
aug 27, 2025, 2:35 am • 6 0 • view
vim is the good pain
aug 27, 2025, 11:28 am • 1 0 • view
Ah, then you want emacs!
aug 27, 2025, 2:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Eight megs and constantly swapping 🤭
aug 27, 2025, 10:46 pm • 2 0 • view
Before I totally divorced Windows from my life, I used to run Cygwin, so I could run real vim.
aug 28, 2025, 2:56 am • 1 0 • view
I hope Notepad++ is forever spared.
aug 27, 2025, 12:37 pm • 1 0 • view
Click here to sign up for ad-free Notepad!
aug 27, 2025, 10:04 am • 0 0 • view
Word now has TWO Copilot actions in the pop-up menu when you select text. IDEK what the difference is and I suspect that there isn’t one. Like 2 different teams at MSFT were both working on the “inject copilot everywhere possible” project at the same time. bsky.app/profile/kare...
aug 27, 2025, 11:42 am • 7 1 • view
They also put it in OneNote, which — the whole point of OneNote is for me to put MY thoughts from MY brain somewhere. What would copilot even accomplish in a note taking app?
aug 27, 2025, 11:44 am • 2 0 • view
I like how now when you click on an underline for spelling IT BLACKS OUT THE WORD IT’S TRYING TO CHANGE who the hell thought that was usable and how had they never used spellcheck before
aug 27, 2025, 12:11 pm • 4 0 • view