Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now

But still no AI in the calculator. Why is that Microsoft?

I predicted you wanted to multiply your answer by 1.2x. No need to thank me!!

Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!

Jeebus, u okay Microsoft? 😬

AI is the new "smart connected" that they are going to shoehorn into anything and everything. No one is asking for AI on Notepad.

Notepad++ and never look back.

Crying in Linux 😢
- Use Kate
- You will use vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are
- just use geany or something else..u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++
- You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won't be exactly integrated experience, but it works.
- Just use nano or vim
- Notepadqq
- Kakoune is there for you
- vscodium, gedit?
- Kwrite

Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because it’s fast and no bloat.

Worpad is dead
- If Notepad is getting AI text editing then it's as good as dead too.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-retires-wordpad-after-28-years-app-no-longer-available-as-of-windows-11-24h2
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.

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?
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.

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! 👍 👍 👍

They own Linux, too. Just wait for systemd-copilot.
- They dont own it, they just own seats at the foundation table and thats not even 50% of the seats :p
- Microsoft does not own systemd
  
  And even if they did, and put copilot into it, distros could still choose to not use it

Just use KDE's Kate, it's so much better in every way

maybe not kate but kwrite. kate is a code editor
- For coders, yes, but for writing down a quick note or something is nice
- KWrite hasn't been released by KDE on the Windows app store, Kate has. Using the app store means seamless updates in the background.
  
  Maybe KWrite is available on winget which would make it a bit less inconvenient than manually downloading each update.
  
  Edit: KWrite isn't available on winget
  
  C:\> winget search kwrite
  
  No package found matching input criteria.
Love Kate on Linux, but is it just me that Kate on Windows is extremely slow to open compares to literally everything, even Sublime? My system has i7-12800HX and everything is installed on gen 4 NVMe SSDs so specs shouldn't be an issue.
Holy hell!

Jesus christ.

There should be AI Jesus in the bible!
- Abrahamitic Incantations

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).
- Maybe windows should just fully embrace containers for as much backwards compatibility as possible.
  
  https://github.com/dockur/windows
Because windows is a fucking mess 😂
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.
Looks like MS still has the culture of don't-make-more-work-for-the-boss.

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.

I will only use this if it uses Clippy's animations.

Thats... what this is, right?

Clippy 3.0?

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

Finally AI in my favourite code editor!

/s (both)

No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!

Wtf you have to login to use notepad now? Wtf???

It should also highlight code!

When I have to boot into Win11, I run this right after as a shortcut from my desktop (right-click and Run As Administrator):

net stop usosvc
sc config usosvc start=disabled
net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start=disabled

.. be sure to set your Wifi points as metered to block Update as well.

Note that anytime you go into certain Settings / Control Panel pages, Win11 silently re-enables the above services! Crazy. (Someone should really write a patch for that...)

Sad anyone has to put up with this BS but, we do what we gotta do.

Those are update services. Upgrading your os is a basic security measure nowadays. You recommend to sacrifice some security because of a minor inconvenience. It's alright if you can live with that tradeoff, but please don't recommend it on the internet. Windows assumes a user is not knowledgeable enough about this topic, so it's enabled for them.

Other hint, because it seems you are also not very knowledgeable about this topic, usually you can disable these things with group policies if you really want to, so you don't have to run it after each boot. Or you can also set up a scheduled task or create a service with nssm.
- Yes, I know they are update services; fair point you make, that those not technically-minded should probably leave them on.
  
  However I personally do not appreciate OS updates, no matter their purported criticality, being installed without my express permission. I am aware of Group policies, but Win11 Home does not officially support them (though one can install gpedit.msc manually; however according to sources I researched, not all policies set will even be honoured by the Home edition).
  
  I did consider scheduling it, just hadn't gotten around to trying it out.
  
  If could, I would wipe Win11 and use native Linux but this laptop is too new and support is poor on it; it's gone as soon as practical :)