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
LibreOffice is a good solution for anything one would use Office or WordPad for. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.
It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).
It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).
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Seems kinda sad. I doubt it’s a program many people use (or even know of) these days, but there is an odd charm to super simple rich text editors like WordPad and TextEdit in macOS.
I suppose AbiWord sorta fills that niche as a replacement.
Anyone remember Microsoft Office’s weird cousin, Works?
Forgot Works ever existed! That takes me back. So glad they killed that mess.
Haha I never understood why they had two office suites.
It was “Write” before Win95.
Reject modern GUI text editors, embrace Vim
I’ve been using for the last 2 years becuase I don’t know how to exit it.
I legitimately loled, we’ve all been there.
:wq The sacred knowledge
You mean "Esc Esc Del Esc Ctrl-C Ctrl-C Ctrl-X Ctrl-Q Esc Esc F11 Ctrl-Z Del Del Del Del F11 F12 F2 Backspace Esc Esc fn0wosnfosjvopakgnapociwbsopalfnnqod9gjbqnspfojwbab9fiehjr "
Nah that’s emacs
Hopefully you find a way out…please let me know if you have found a way out.
Doom emacs is superior
Emacs is a fine operating system, lacking only a good text editor.
Edit: For the record, I code in emacs every day at work. (Please send help.)
Oh I definitely agree - and highly recommend checking out doom emacs to solve that. It’s emacs configured to use vim keybinds instead (and other QOL features). It adds a bit less than 200 add-ons by default, but they’re only loaded as needed so startup time is still <1 second
Eh, I’ve got so many keybindings and scripts and changes already and I actually quite like my setup. Not looking to learn vim keybindings beyond the ones I know (essentially how to close vim 😁).
So the next Windows won’t come with any text editor unless you pay extra for Word?
It’ll have notepad
Notepad with AI, so you can continue to not use Notepad, but with AI.
If these fuckers touch notepad I’ll riot.
Actually that’s not true, I’ll just be quietly annoyed.
They’ve already touched it. It has a new UI, new features, and has crashed on me multiple times. They’re about to add AI shit to it too.
I’ve had no issues. I don’t mind the tabs thing, because I’m the kinda buffoon who uses notepad like a notepad. Sometimes I close it and intentionally don’t save only to later be like shit, wish I didn’t do that, and now it’s like I didn’t!
When I inevitably have issues though I will join you in complaining, because why do they always have to mess with shit!
I use VSCode + Markdown for an actual notepad. The only thing I ever want from Notepad is to open a file as plain text, instantly, and let me read and search through the text, and maybe make a modification and save it. If I’m gonna be looking at the contents for more than 5 seconds it’s already a good idea to be using a proper text editor.
if i had to use windows it’d be debloated 10
11 sucks
but linux is better than both
They already did. They added tabs to it, which honestly was a pleasant surprise but loooooong overdue. Apps like Notepad++ had stolen the reason for Notepad to exist long ago.
AbiWord was probably the closest as a FLOSS equivalent?
Didn’t Windows for Workgroups (3.12) also have WordPad? I remember something that was more complex than Notepad being released with pre-95 Windows.
3.11 (not 3.12, which was never a thing) apparently came with Microsoft Write.
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Microsoft Write is a basic word processor included with Windows 1. 0 and later, until Windows NT 3. 51. Throughout its lifespan it was minimally updated, and is comparable to early versions of MacWrite. Early versions of Write only work with Write Document (.
Is wordpad, notepad?
