Windows 11’s Notepad continues to get Copilot-powered AI features – a handy addition to a tool whose main appeal has always been simplicity and minimalism. Not all users are happy, however, with some saying AI features are overkill.
Not a single person or organisation needs to use Windows or Office365.
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On a website which has AI slop wondering what’s wrong with AI unenthusiasts. Guess the picture is just icing on the get-that-icky-AI-drool-off-of-me cake
The whole purpose of Notepad is to open up a text file QUICKLY. Who the fuck cares about AI in this thing?
Who the fuck cares about AI in this thing?
I assume their team is called something like “strategic data partnerships for targeted ad delivery”.
Every word is more disgusting than the previous in that title. Ew. Lol
I’m speechless. Notepad was essentially the last thing left pure.
I hope they put AI into my sneakers, lightbulbs, clocks…every fucking thing that doesn’t need it.
I want AI powered toilet paper, so that I can wipe my ass with global warming… Nothing says fuck you nature as much as going out of your way to make its destruction even more humiliatingly pointless.
What’s wrong with people
No user said, “Leave it alone.” Not a single one. Universally from the office, to the classroom, to the monastery, every single person said, “Leave it the fuck alone.”
You can leave at any time. You don’t have to be in an abusive relationship with your operating system.
Microsoft seem to have very tight grip on the corporate world. It’s getting better, but still.
I left a company once because they started switching to Microsoft infrastructure and that just got miserable. But I’m a privileged in that regard, a lot of people can’t do thatYeah, but how will I pirate games on Linux?
I mostly download ROMs for old Nintendo and Sony consoles, if for some reason I get a hankering for a modern title I’ll purchase it on my steam account which I run on my Ubuntu laptop.
Oh yeah, it’s really not hard. Or so I have heard. From a friend.
Haven’t seen a single Linux game to download from torrents. All are for windows. Care to ask your friend how/where he pirates AAA games on Linux?
Proton. You run the Windows version sometimes it runs better than it does on Windows
Look up Heroic or Lutris, both run Windows games in Linux
I had a dream where somebody pirated windows games on Linux and just played them through wine/proton. Just like… you know, legally purchased copies.
Of course, as an upstanding citizen I haven’t tried this in real life.
So you still need to run Windows, but now with extra performance overhead
You seem to really want this to not work, but I suggest actually looking into how far gaming on Linux has come. Proton is actual magic.
Wine is not an emulator. It *translates* windows code to linux at runtime. Bazzite wouldn’t beat windows at so many benchmarks if it was a virtual machine.
Also I wouldn’t know but if you are looking for where to potentially find native linux binaries for games that support it, you should probably go ask that question on totally unrelated counter strike forums
Neither Wine or Proton require running Windows. They’re compatibility layers which allow Linux to operate software intended for Windows.
You may be thinking about when someone emulates a full virtual Windows machine within Linux, which is more resource-intensive. The overhead and performance impact of a compatibility layer like Wine or Proton is generally negligible compared to running such a VM.
Running most Windows games on Linux is easy nowadays, regardless of how you acquired them.
Idk if you got it from the source directly inatead of websites that just reupload with malware, you would see linux versions BEFORE windows.
Every windows site and maybe zamunda? I think that’s what he meant?
Yeah, but how will I pirate games on Linux?
If this is sarcasm, you might want to tag it as such, before half the Linux community shows up to give pointers.
I, myself, have never pirated anything, obviously.
But I heard from a friend that it can be pretty great, even on Linux.
Cool, I will tell my friend that he should try it.
It’s easier
More efficiently without all the bloatware?
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Guess I’ll just keep using old versions lol
Notepad ++
It’s not an old Version but what windows notepad shouldve been twenty years ago
Yeah, I’ve used it. If I’m editing code I use Visual Studio since Unity opens scripts in that. If I’m just looking at text I want my editor as simple as possible.
FAVORITE NOTEPAD++ PLUGIN - GO!
I like Compare and JSON Parser - use them everyday.
I’m a big fan of the hex editor plugin, but mostly because I like playing with hex
Join Team Linux!
I have a machine with Ubuntu. Most of my hobby stuff is on W7/W10 machines. My familiarity with Windows commands far exceeds my familiarity with Linux commands.
Then you can learn
Due to CAD/CAM and the nature of my industry, I’m stuck with windows on my daily driver for the foreseeable future. (Been using Linux since Ubuntu was new, have multiple servers and old chromebooks running different flavors.)
I’ve been putting off dealing with this. Goatfucking bullshit pain in my dick.
Can I pretty please get recommendations on upgrading to 11 and unfucking it as much as possible?
I recommend you getting a second pc with an gpu and install linux on your main one. Then get moonlight and connect to the windows one with it. Its a in-house streaming solution like this cloud gaming stuff. But also for just for normal usage. Like remote desktop but actually so fast you forget that its remote. Thats what iam doing for these big windows only software situations.
I’m not willing to spend the money it would cost to duplicate my rig right now. That also throws the same problem on a different machine.
I’m just going to have to neuter the installation I have after an upgrade. I need to figure out if there is anything I should do to it while it’s still on 10.
I just decided to leave Microsoft alone 20 years ago.
Second best time is today!
Self-employed?
Plenty of jobs don’t need to have Microsoft involved. Hell, plenty of computer-based jobs don’t need Microsoft at all, and will be done worse with their products around
How would you get around not using Teams for a Teams meeting?
You don’t have teams meetings. There are alternatives that don’t require you to lock in in their infrastructure.
I’m aware, but if my boss is requiring me to join a Teams meeting, I’m not in much of a position to impose on him and others being requested to join the meeting, sometimes in the dozens and hundreds, to have the meeting over a different program instead.
And yet, it’s not a universal experience, even though you have one
Don’t know about anyone else, but I just use the web version of Teams.
So… Microsoft is involved
Yes, but then so is any visit to a website using Azure. But at least I don’t have to install any MS software.
i have never once used windows at work (professional programmer)
I really want AI in my…
You want AI in your penis? Kid? Wife?
Huh. That’s my line I guess.
Yet another reason I’ve made NotePad++ my go-to editor. Better for all the crashlogs and stuff I mess with.
Damn, notepad++… I remember feeling so sad that there wasn’t a Linux version back when I ditched Windows.
Baffles me that this did not get a wildly successful native Linux version in all those years, but it’s probably too late now with VSCode and all the NeoVim fans.
KDE’s Kate can be configured for similar functionality akin to NotePad++
I’ve found that the basic editors are all good. Mouse, Gedit, Kate, they all work wonderfully
They’ve come a long way in 20 years for sure.
and all the NeoVim fans.
Yes. NeoVim has no business being as good as a drop-in replacement for Notepad, as it is (for people who want that, anyway.)
Even VSCode isn’t half bad at a quick load, now - as long as it isn’t loading too many plugins.
NotePad++ is still pretty great, by any measure, though. (Edit: But not good enough to load Windows for, to me.)
From the Notepad++ home page:
Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API
Trying to port it to other platforms is thus nonsensical. It would have to be a ground-up rewrite without the Windows API dependency. And there are indeed various other projects for Linux and other platforms that pretty much replicate its functionality, but they’re by definition not going to be Notepad++.
Geany might be your thing.
Or Kate, which funny enough now runs on windows
Many KDE apps run on Windows. Okular is the best PDF viewer for the entire platform.
Thanks for the recommendation. I did have a short stint with Geany back then, but this was nearly two decades ago now, I have since moved on.
For Linux there’s Notepadqq
Is there? Releases span between 2017 and 2019, the last of which is a beta, and it is largely unmaintained, with most of the contributions after that being “readme updates” and the odd typo/mistranslation.Wouldn’t call that a wildly successful Linux version of notepad++.EDIT: reading this again, I don’t know why I sound so needlessly angry, it wasn’t my intention.
I meant to say this does not sound like a viable alternative from a glance. But if you used it and it’s good I am happy to be proven wrong.
oh god i know what they’re planning…they’re going to force AI slop into the base model and charge you extra to move up to premium, where it’s just a regular fucking text editor, lmao
Ah, the Centurion package.
Copilot has been in Notepad, though. It can be disabled in Settings. I also disabled Markdown — I don’t need it. I just use Notepad as like a scratch pad, it’s a bit more versatile than Sticky Notes (which I also use).
