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For the first time in 40 years, Windows will ship without built-in word processor (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Thus ending our long national nightmare of accidentally opening things in WordPad on a fresh install.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Notepad++ is nice, but a bit bloated IMO. I'm personally a big fan of Notepad2 and Notepad3 - they're just standalone portable EXEs which don't need to be installed. On most of my installs, I replace the OG notepad with this, so when I type "notepad" from the run dialog, it launches Notepad2.