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[lea_hazel]

Windows 11 is so phenomenally shitty that they managed to ruin Notepad, arguably The single most useful basic all-purpose program. You could just open any text file in it. You could use it to edit properties files, configuration files, XML, HTML. You could write entire Java programs in it if you were enterprising. It was quick, lightweight, and had all the features it could possibly need, which was almost none.

W11 "Notepad" is a bloated monster that takes several seconds to load a file less than 1KB. I uninstalled it. For the first time in my life, I uninstalled Notepad.

This fucking timeline, man.

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[princessofgeeks]

Preach it.

[frith]

It's Wordpad I find useful. With Wordpad (on Windows 7) I have a wide choice of fonts, colours and sizes for the text. That has many uses, like keeping track of edits I've made to a 200,000 word story. I use Wordpad to put together blog posts before I copy/paste them into a message field on DreamWidth. I discovered that Windows 10 would not support Wordpad, so I tried using Notepad. That allowed me to move some text to Win 10, but Win 10 called it Wordpad... with all the features disabled.

As you said, this timeline... The monopolies just keep on turning those screws.