Fuck this article. Title is insanely misleading. The paywall is for 1 specific AI feature, not the Notepad program itself.
Even when I had to use Windows, I used Notepad++. Microsoft’s Notepad has messed up the formatting of so many text files, over the years no one should even consider it.
That said, why would anyone even want or need AI for what should be just a simple text editor?
It has never been free since you bought it together with the windows license :^)
Now it’s another micro transaction on top of the product you already paid for.
I use linux but I just checked on my windows 11 vm, the paywall is for AI copilot stuff not the core functionality of the app at all.
Wow what an overdramatic headline then, I mean at this level it’s not even clickbait it’s straight up lies.
They will do it with ma office, although you can use cracked version.
And this is why Windows is always the laughing stock. Use Notepad++ for Windows, or literally anything you want (including a fork of N++ called “Notepad qq”) on Linux.
The article says it’s to enable some AI rewrite shit. So basically if you want normal functionality, everything is normal. If you want something they are investing billions of dollars into for reasons unknown to modify your text, you have to pay them.
It actually sounds reasonable. Want this expensive shit? Pay for it. No? Don’t.
Why are you justifying bloat?
The first thing I do when setting up new Windows environments (for work) is to install Notepad++. Fuck Microsoft.
Dammit! I love notebook. Truly I didn’t know it was Microsoft.
This is Notepad
This is why they got rid of WordPad.
And no, I don’t want AI crap in my basic note-taking app.
I have been a Notepad ++ user for years. I sometimes forget that the Microsoft Notepad even exists.
good cause literally anything else is better than notepad so if this pushes people to download literally anything else instead it’s a good development
hopefully linux.
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Will you need a subscription to turn-off the computer now?
I imagine adding a fine to using the psu switch would make it truly the year of linux.
At this point anyone that voluntary uses windows is just braindead. I love Linux but if you don’t wanna use that then even Mac is better than that… For now
Just to clarify, when you say voluntarily does that except people who need specific programs that just can’t be used on Linux? Because it would in my mind.
I disagree, VR, simflight, good cad software, archicad (or if you are somehow deep in stockholm syndrome) adobe need windows. Also smaller stuff like race datalogger data analysis program doesn’t exist on linux. Linux does not have enough users to have solutions for everything. Yet. For kernel AC games, they are bad rehashes anyway and there’s 20 alternative games for each that are better.
Did you mean to suggest that Mac is better than Linux? In what way?
They meant better than what MS is doing. Basically Linux would be choice one, but failing that get a Mac. Until they go the same direction.
Ye exactly
Gotcha. Thanks for clarifying.
If you buy a mac, you just prepaid the subscription fee in the hardware price. Then they hook you into an environment where you have to pay it for every new device.
I’d argue buying a PC you have to opt in to subscriptions, buying a Mac you can’t opt out.
