Notepad++ and never look back.

Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because it’s fast and no bloat.

I'm all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster

Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.

Keep going M$! You're the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍

Just use KDE's Kate, it's so much better in every way

Jesus christ.

Is nothing sacred?

At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).

And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.

Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

I will only use this if it uses Clippy's animations.

Thats... what this is, right?

Clippy 3.0?

I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90's that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic... or at least we created it on a training course...

So, I'm surprised that anyone's done anything with it.

It's probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls

But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?

Finally AI in my favourite code editor!

/s (both)

No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!