Sorry, Windows 11 is total shit but let’s get this straight – it’s only the stupid “AI” features that are behind a paywall. Microsoft may have a black heart of pure greed, but if you want to pop open notepad.exe and type in Harry Potter fanfic, it still works free for no extra charge. If you want the AI to help you write a romantic encounter between Snape and Dumbledore, well, you’re going to have to pay then… no way around it.
Oh no they didn’t
Sensationalized garbage. It’s not going to be paywalled. Only the AI features are.
I just shrank my partition but Im just gonna delete it and fully swap to linux, idc if I run into isues anymore, I always got a usb to restart and 90% of what I do is online
Not that I’m using 11, but my response would be: Notepad? No thank you, I’ve got Notepad++. The plus mean it’s better, and it’s got two of them so you know it’s really good shit.
And it is objectively 1000% better, notepad is trash, i use notepad++ every day
You’ll do anything besides use Linux
I agree. Until there is that one thing I want to do that windows just does better… Like iTunes backups.
Of all Microsoft products, notepad was the one I trusted the most. Now this!
Welp, looks like Notepad++ will be getting a ton of new installs.
Have been using it since God knows when. It’s fantastic. Also i edited windows’ registry to replace notpad.exe with npp.
Not to mention it’s far superior.
I think that’s implied and why it will be getting a lot of new installs
SaaS - Shit as a Service.
I found out that if you don’t like the new win11 notepad with the tabs and all the other bullshit, you can just uninstall it, and the other, older, familiar notepad that was still there all the time, will take over, file type associations and all. This even worked on my work computer, where I am not an admin.
I was quite pleased that I could do this.
That’s actually really funny and I’m wondering if M$ won’t end up removing it down the line just to prevent the fallback being so easy for users (you know how you want to make things hard for your customers when you make products).
If they could just make a new operating system instead of tacking on bullshit on top of 30+ year old shit I wouldn’t complain. But as a sys admin of a building for of windows 11 shit…fuck Microsoft.
I can’t stand it when I make a product that doesn’t make my customers lives significantly worse. It makes me feel like a failure
Oh good one! I was thinking about the absurdity of having to uninstall notepad when this bullshit started. Now I know it’s just a step. Thanks!
Thanks for the tip. Tabs are dumb, auto saving is annoying, and notepad is literally only for tracking my thoughts since I’m a little scatterbrained. Otherwise I’m going to use a better option like sublime or ++.
Huh? Notepad++ auto saves and has tabs.
I know, right?
I’m more of a fan of notepad 2-mod
Tabs are dumb?
I am so glad I left Windows.
I’m fairly anti-AI, but I can’t imagine the use case for AI rewrite in Notepad. Word I can at least can see it, but Notepad?
My best guess is that it’s useful, if you specifically just have a snippet of text you want rephrased. Like, imagine you find a paper you want to plagiarize, so you copy some text, paste it into Notepad, click the rewrite-button, and then you can take it from there and paste it into your LaTeX editor. In some sense, Notepad is the minimal UI you need for that, which also starts up quickly.
It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account, and users can go as far as removing the Rewrite icon completely from Notepad. Despite the ability to still use the software without an account, Microsoft has received some criticism for implementing what is most definitely a paywall/advertisement for a built-in piece of Windows software.
to be sure
I refuse to believe this is reality.
Imagine if this was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Notepad goes subscription, and the world finally snaps.
