Not even Notepad is safe from Microsoft’s big AI push in Windows

hexagonwin , 5 months ago

Users can just use W10 LTSC IOT until 2032 and switch to Linux or ReactOS by then lol..
This thing just isn't worth using

SuperSpruce , 5 months ago

Goodbye notepad, hello notepad++.

Mereo , 5 months ago

Thank God I switched to Linux. Windows 11 is a glimpse of what's coming in Windows 12.

AlwaysNowNeverNotMe , 5 months ago

What distro did you start on? I'm thinking I would rather learn Linux than take an 11 upgrade when 10 stops getting security updates.

kusivittula , 5 months ago

i suggest you split your disk and try linux in the other partition way before w10 ends, because there's still a bit of a learning curve and getting used to. for me it took a few tries, a few different distros. i went back to windows for a while a couple of times when i accidentally killed my penquin. btw disable fast startup from windows power button settings if you go this route, that'll save you from a lot of head scratching. i ended up with mint because it seems to be the only distro that works perfectly with my buggy ass 3060ti.

Gabu , 5 months ago

Yeah, an AMD GPU is pretty much required for that *chef's kiss* seamless experience.

Gabu , 5 months ago

A piece of advice - if you deal with industrial/business stuff at all, just go with Debian. There's a reason why most fields use it in some form.

Sabata11792 , 5 months ago

Even notpad can't escape enshittification.

Gork , 5 months ago

Notepad by itself is pretty bare bones. It does have a "Search with Bing" selection in the Edit menu though, which I find odd.

Semi-Hemi-Demigod , 5 months ago

There's some product manager at Bing who probably got a promotion for that

Gabu , 5 months ago

It does have a “Search with Bing” selection in the Edit menu though

What the literal fuck? When was it added?

LWD , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

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SnotFlickerman , 5 months ago

Notepad is heavily used as an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) by a lot of people. It's not exactly a good development environment but it is nonetheless. I would actually argue Notepad is used primarily by programmers, and that casual Windows Notepad users are in the extreme minority. The whole reason it's so heavily used is because unlike WordPad or Word, it doesn't include formatting data, which can fuck up computer code.

Notepad++ for example is literally built to be more like an actual IDE and supports color-schemes and indentations for numerous computer programming languages.

Microsoft isn't entirely stupid (just mostly), and in knowing this, they're pushing to put their programming Copilot where they think it needs to be: Inside IDEs, which to them includes Notepad.

admiralteal , 5 months ago

Notepad is definitionally not an IDE. It is not an integrated environment -- and anyone who is intentionally using it over alternatives is almost certainly doing so precisely because they do not want their text editor to be an integrated environment.

I'm sure there's some case where Notepad is PART of an integrated environment, but it would have to be with support of other tools -- likely a terminal of some sort.

The reason other text editors like -- like Notepad++ or Neovim -- can be full IDEs is because they have plugins to generate that integrated experience.

SnotFlickerman , 5 months ago

Tomato Tomahto.

There's a reason they're adding Copilot in it, and it's not because people don't use it for programming, even if it's not technically an IDE.

admiralteal , 5 months ago

I think perhaps you don't know what an IDE is.

Notepad isn't "technically" not an IDE. It does not have any of the features that make an IDE an IDE. People using something for programming does not make that thing an IDE.

An IDE is an integrated environment for development. Notepad is not integrated with any environment. That's what makes it good.