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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

Oh god, how will replace a completely basic word processor? Surely there are not numerous replacements?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

So, turns out that they final push that convinced me to start learning Linux is the ol' Text Document.txt of all things. Swear to God, I thought that it would be the automatic updates nuking my unsaved work (again), but here we are...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Could MS suck any worse? It’s like they want people to not use their products. Capitalism is the ouroboros.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I use Vim, actually

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

There always has to be one...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Used only in cases where everything else is not readily available... Pencil, pen, blood, boogers etc. But the most easily replaceable piece of software. Literally you could just paste into a browser's URL box to do the same job. Lol. There must be some dumb fuck heading Microsoft right now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

[email protected] could use more folks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

After taking a look at the pictures of the article, I noticed “requires AI credits”. Credits?! What is this now? Some shitty mobile game? Really, Microsoft isn’t ashamed of anything anymore…

I mean, I don’t know about Microsoft and windows, so maybe this is different, but the name sounds crazy!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

The fact that they choose to mess with Notepad is more telling than the value it has given the alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Time to try my newly-released text editor lol.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

https://www.sublimetext.com/

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good thing whenever I set up Windows, Notepad is one of the things I nuke, using Geany to replace it.

This is a bad sign if MS gets emboldened and starts paywalling basic OS functionality at some point in the future, though.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

They could've added this to wordpad if they didn't kill it.

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