I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90's that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic... or at least we created it on a training course...
So, I'm surprised that anyone's done anything with it.
It's probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls
Is nothing sacred?
At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).
And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.
And most Linux distributions have a simple text editor shipped with their desktop environment (i.e. Kate or GNOME Text Editor).
I use vim, but there are simpler editors if you want something CLI, like nano or pico.
Yep, I’ll typically use vim or nano for editing existing files, but when in just want to make a quick temporary note or fiddle with some plain text it’s the graphical one that came with the DE.
Jesus christ.
There should be AI Jesus in the bible!
I'm all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster
what do you do if you need to run an app thats windows exclusive? wine?
My solution is to not run that app.
The only Windows-only stuff I have run in the last 15+ years of using Linux are games, and then I just pick one that works out of the box on Steam for Linux. The transition period was rough, but now I just don't even consider what Windows-only software exists and stick to Linux software, and I've solved every problem I've had so far.
If you really need something, either WINE or a VM works. I actually have a separate drive on my desktop with Windows installed, but I haven't needed to boot up Windows in years. But it's there if I absolutely need it.
need it for work dog
If so, then you either need WINE, a VM, or dual boot.
not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It's really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.
How well does a windows vm run in linux? Does it have hardware acceleration?
Asking because i need something to run photoshop and lightroom, which both need hardware acceleration :/
It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn't free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.
I don’t have experience with it, but I’m sure it’s possible to pass the GPU control to the VM, I don’t know how well this sort of thing works.
I think in general, VMWare is the best at working for Windows images.
Personally haven't encountered anything that didn't run on wine or proton. I know shit like Adobe and some multi-player live service games are intentionally made to NOT run on Linux, but I couldn't care less. If I wanted to burn money for the hell of it, I'd spend it on something fun.
I still have a 2nd drive with windows on it for davinci because things don't quite work right in the linux version.
I'm using Bottles for the 1 game I play seriously and it was the only thing keeping windows as my daily driver. it's been almost a month without booting into windows now.
The real secret is to dual boot and don't inconvenience yourself. Nothing will turn you off linux more than having limited time to do something specific and needing to spend it all compiling something that just fucking works out of the box on windows.
Use the right tool for the right job and eventually you'll realize how bad a tool windows has actually become.
yeah i used to have a ubuntu dual boot machine for years. i just only use it for the program i need, web browsing etc is on the phone anymore
thanks
Notepad++ and never look back.
Crying in Linux 😢
You will use vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are
:x
Notepadqq
Just use nano or vim
its not the same as notepad :(
Right, they're better. :)
vscodium, gedit?
just use geany or something else..u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++
Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because it’s fast and no bloat.
Worpad is dead
i use notepad to paste garbage that needs the formatting stripped out, they better not fuck that up.
I've been using Notepads (yes with an extra S) instead of Notepad for ages now and it's a pretty good and fast option with a nice modern design even before MS changed up Notepad.
this one? https://github.com/0x7c13/Notepads?tab=readme-ov-file
looks cool.
Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.
Keep going M$! You're the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍
Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.
Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.
The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).
Microsoft is in conflict with itself if web apps, modern native apps, or classic native apps are the future. That's why even different Microsoft applications feel as or even more disconnected from each other than using KDE applications under Gnome.
Because windows is a fucking mess 😂
I will only use this if it uses Clippy's animations.
Thats... what this is, right?
Clippy 3.0?
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