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Enshitification

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 ++.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Huh? Notepad++ auto saves and has tabs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago

I know, right?

I'm more of a fan of notepad 2-mod

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Tabs are dumb?