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Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95 (gadgettendency.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Likely feels that way because it has to load the Java runtime before launching.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I believe, it only loads a Java runtime for the JDBC database driver in LibreOffice Base. At least, you can tell it in the settings to not use a Java runtime and that seems to not affect the remaining functionality...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Tbh I don't use Windows or libre office so I'm just guessing. Back in the day I just know it took what felt like forever to load initially (and my pc fans took flight each time) but so did MS office 🤷

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