• blady_blah@lemmy.world
    1·
    26 minutes ago

    I hate this person. It makes me want to scream. One of the dumbest stupidest things about Windows is a fucking useless programs go on with it that haven’t been updated in 20 years. Please update them. You want to update notepad? Go look at Notepad+. Please please please update all the shitty little programs that exist around Windows that no one uses cause they’re so goddamn shitty.

    Holy fuck update Windows programs. For the love of God update ALL the Windows programs. Make the goddamn search tool work. Make the goddamn voice to text work. Make the image viewer not suck. Please don’t listen to the people who are resistant to change. Leave an old shitty version on there just for them, but please please make Windows programs better because they suck right now!!

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 minutes ago

      What a bad take. Notepad was never meant to have formatting, as the post states. Notepad’s purpose was to open war text files as raw text. For formatted text, there was WordPad. What made notepad great is that it was the fastest and easiest way to just know what is in the damn file.

      • Bytemeister@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        45 seconds ago

        Yes! Leave notepad alone. I don’t need to load fucking Word when I just want to quickly type out some bullshit that I’m going to reference a few minutes later and then not bother to save. Notepad has always been the fastest, most responsive and reliable tool in windows that I (and probably a lot of people) use every fucking day.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    15·
    3 hours ago

    Tabs were a welcome addition, but that’s where the good idea train swiftly leaves the rails.

    What we needed was a built-in hex editor, and maybe some better tools for working with unicode that you can’t just type in on whatever keyboard you have.

    Instead, they turned it into WordPad, which we already have.

  • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    5 hours ago

    If you use the formatting bar to format text, it unlocks the View→Markdown menu which has two options - Markdown or Syntax. This allows you to toggle seeing the source or formatted markdown.

    If you do not use the formatting bar to format text, markdown is not enabled. I manually typed in text in markdown format and the menu didn’t un-grey.

    You can go into the app settings and turn off formatting, which will hide the formatting toolbar.

    I think you really have to work hard to be offended by this.

    Additionally, for those Notepad Purists™ who are offended by any features being added… Tabs are handy. And having it auto-save drafts and auto-open them is also handy - for me. Maybe you don’t like that, but you can disable the auto-save in settings. Can’t turn off tabs, but you can set it to open in new windows, so pretty close to disabling that.

    If this is what drives you over the edge to use Linux… okay, bud, have it your way - and I’m a Linux enthusiast, so I’m all for it. But being pissed off by something you have to specifically enable seems a bit silly to me. It’s the hallmark of fascism - “Other people have the right to exist! FUCK THAT!” - a little hyperbolic, but the principle is vaguely the same. :P (And what’s the internet without hyperbole? :) )

  • baller_w@lemmy.zip
    20·
    6 hours ago

    I’ve totally fallen for markdown. I want more normies to know about it.

    All the nice things about rich text with none of the Word.

    • foofighter@lemmy.world
      9·
      6 hours ago

      Huh. That write up seems pretty useful. It’s so weird that the redesigned app is just an alias to the old and untouched app that’s still sitting in system32

      • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
        6·
        5 hours ago

        Same way the rest of the OS is built.

        All those fucked up snapins and apps and pretty pretty nonfunctional interfaces (try changing an ip) are utterly negated by start-run-“control”