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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed (gizmodo.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed::It's truly the end of an era as we say farewell to a real one.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

LibreOffice is lots faster than Word, honestly you can say that about any peice of Microsoft software and its open source equivilant. LibreOffice also displays old document formats better too.

Never used wordpad, honestly surprised to see how many people used it. Maybe someone will start a project to make a simple word processor to replace it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

From my experience Word runs faster and more smoothly than LibreOffice Writer.

Everyone says Word is bloated, but gosh they're picking the wrong Microsoft software to pick on. Pick on Teams instead. Word is clunky at times and slow but feature rich. Teams is horribly slow and laggy even on fast hardware.