Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need the greatest PC software available

candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
wrote:

Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 12:52 this Tuesday (GMT):

On Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:13 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:

Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 00:25 this Sunday (GMT):

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To be fair, no one uses Windows' system apps. WordPad's lack of use, in
particular, is a shame. It really was more than most people needed.

 
Notepad usually filled that need.. and it was the default. Though a
random fun fact, WordPad is stored in Win32, making it technically a
system-required app.

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Yet it is no longer going to be loaded onto computer using new Windows 11
versions. I presure people will still be able to install it through the
Optional System Components or whatever it is called, but it won't be there
by default. You'll need to use the online office.com suite instead. It is
better, but your documents are stored on Microsoft's servers, and you need
to be online to use it... as far as I know.

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I'm sorry /what/.
They're /removing notepad/?!
That is the STUPIDEST THING THEY COULD DO!
Absolutely ridiculous... how are you supposed to edit text files without
wifi then??

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He was talking about WordPad, not Notepad, although the "new" version
of the latter in Win11 is borked, I had to get a third party text
editor that Chris V. recommended (which was better than the classic
Notepad, I must say, more like what I have with Mint now).  WordPad is
a relic, to say the least, if one wants something more than a text
editor, just get LO, I would say, that's all I ever used, regardless
of OS, for 20 years.