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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad (www.tweaktown.com)
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[–] MichaelScotch@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fine. Notepad++ is better anyway

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it though? I still always open notepad for random text stuff. What is better in ++?

[–] RustyShackleford@literature.cafe 2 points 2 months ago

Notepad++ isn't trying to shoehorn in AI for starters. It's clear Microsoft is praying the current gimmicky narrative of AI will let the masses not realize this is a privacy nightmare.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Linux

End of conversation.

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think that's the start of the conversation. Which Desktop Environment?

[–] kava@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gnome is an opinionated desktop environment and that turns some people off. But it's bold enough to make some design decisions and have a limited scope. KDE tries to be another Windows alternative.

Of course, you could go with a tiling window manager but my vote goes to Gnome. I've had a very smooth experience on Gnome for the last couple years.

[–] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com -1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, Gnome is like the Apple of the Linux world. The devs have the same kind of “we know better than you do” mentality towards design. The issue tracker is a lot of “hey the OS won’t let me do [edge-case scenario that an OS should be able to do, but which most users won’t bother with]” followed by the devs going “Gnome isn’t designed to support [edge-case scenario]. Bug report closed.” Like the devs have a very “it’s not a bug; It’s a feature” mentality, and anyone who runs into that bug must be using the OS “wrong”.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It should be noted that you can still use Notepad without a Microsoft account

Despite the ability to still use the software without an account

Are we not doing context anymore?

What is this? Just outrage for the sake of outrage?