If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to pay, with the new changes to 40-year-old software adopting the 'freemium' model.
  • CounselingTechie@slrpnk.net
    3·
    14 hours ago

    Sadly sets a precedent, even if they are putting their AI features behind the paywall.

    That being said, the daily reminder that Notepad ++ and LibreOffice are better anyways, and if you want to get Linux most versions have Gedit at the beginning.

  • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
    8·
    19 hours ago

    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.

  • yarr@feddit.nlEnglish
    3·
    17 hours ago

    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.

  • 3dmvr@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    17 hours ago

    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

  • 843563115848z@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    351·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee
      1·
      19 hours ago

      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).

      • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee
        2·
        15 hours ago

        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.

      • Juice@midwest.social
        2·
        16 hours ago

        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

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    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?

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      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.