LOL that’s like peak enshittification right there.
I can hear this image
I switched to Linux recently, you can too. It’s easy and works well now. No more of this bullshit from Microsoft.
Which version? And for those of us yet to switch, are there any handy guides that you’d recommend?
For new comers Linux Mint is a great out-of-the-box experience. You will find tons of info and guide on youtube, but it’s pretty much as simple as installing windows now.
I personally like Fedora and Nobara but the latest sometimes break with updates so you need to handle this.
You can try most distros in a virtual machine before installing, to get a general idea of the look and feels.
Can I build any custom PC and I have it run Linux ?
What if I need to have Adobe Pro and MS Word full versions for work ?
In regard to any custom PC, absolutely Linux runs on most hardware.
Adobe, and word aren’t written native to Linux, there are solutions such as wine that can help, or you can dual boot or use a virtual machine
Linux has always worked ok. It’s the desktop environments that are unpolished. And the driver model.
Unlike the polished experience in Windows where the UI completely changes every 5 years and there are, literally, 6 different menus for adjusting the volume because removing them literally breaks the kernel.
What, precisely, is the user-facing problem with this (the volume one)?
I’m not going to argue that tech companies change UIs and usually for the worse and usually dont fix them. I mean look how shit gnome is after it merged together the worst parts of windows 8 and windows 11. It’s awful. Or chrome’s insistent efforts to return chrome to chrome even though it’s point was being a low chrome browser. Or Firefox deciding that small chrome was too complex to support and dropping that feature. Or every bank turning their website into the shittiest form of single page app. I agree – all of these behaviors are not great. KDE gets and deserves credit for being the same clunker with tiny incremental improvements it’s been for years. I saw in kde6 they rounded some buttons? Good for them!
If I’m using VoIP, it reduces the system volume by 50%.
There isn’t an option to change this in the Windows 10 UI. You have to dig through the options to find the Windows XP menu to change it. This setting no longer saves between reboots, so every time I boot I have to dig through the same 3 layers of volume settings.
Lots of network settings are unavailable in the modern settings menu. You have to find the “advanced” menu which is just the menu from older versions of Windows.
Each major system update there’s a new layer of configuration menus, each with a different set of options some are redundant. They’re all integrated with the system in their own unique way and the people that worked on them are not part of the team that’s working on the next iteration.
They can’t remove the old menus so they just add another one on top. At least in a Linux DE, you know that pipewire is the sound system and there is one way to configure it. You can choose from many different GUI applications if you want a graphical interface, but they’re all editing the same configuration.
Never experienced anything like that with KDE Plasma.
Experienced having more than one way to change the volume? Or you’ve looked into the source of kde and confirmed there aren’t old sliders sneaking around taking up 3 kB of space?
Yes, that polished windows patching screen. Or is it the ads you’re referring to?
I don’t know what randomly selected one-off failure you’re referring to.
I’m referring to the daily experience of clunk from kde or the smooth glidey uselessness of gnome.
Notepad++.
That is all.
gedit is available from the Microsoft store.
Sublime Text
In my opinion, Sublime Text is a little bit better for coding based applications, specifically with like HTML and CSS, even though Notepad++ is great for it too, but just for overall drag and drop replace, works with everything, wonderful, free and open source software, it is very, very difficult to beat Notepad++.
Fair, I just don’t like how cluttered Notepad++ feels.
Some people would call that “functionality”.
Sublime Text has all that functionality and more without stealing precious screen space from your valuable text.
Never used Sublime Text but just from the screenshots on their site looks like the only real difference is the menu bars? Do you have to reference the documentation to look up keyboard shortcuts on all the stuff you don’t do often?
No, it’s not vi.
I’ve never heard of notepad++ being referred to as cluttered before. It’s fairly spartan in my opinion.
Cluttered compared to Notepad or Sublime Text.
Price wise sublime text isn’t that great unless you are coding with it.
Seconded!
Does anyone still use Notepad?? xD
I think you dropped this on the way in, king:
I don’t want to get into a text editor war - because these are all good options - but it’s definitely also worth giving the “Kate” editor from KDE a go, it’s available as a native Windows app from the MS store and everything:
https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9NWMW7BB59HW
I personally find it considerably nicer to use than Notepad++, and it means I don’t have to give up 25 years of muscle memory for keyboard shortcuts when I have to switch to a windows machine.
Also some crazy how, it uses less RAM than Notepad‽ (With no files open, 61 vs 71MB) Not sure what Microsoft are up to, but it’s definitely something strange.
Been using nedit for a long time, then medit aka mooedit. When that became abandonware, I switched to Bluefish. Even though it’s 100% what I need, it’s the best for me, for now.
To each their own for sure, but the takeaway here is that there are definitely better notepads than Notepad by now, especially since having AI baked into your plain text editor isn’t something that anyone ever asked for.
At this rate you may a well use a slab of some granite and a chisel, or maybe even vim.
who asked for this, I get the article sucks. but like… it’s just supposed to be a simple text editor and I think I’m right to worry about what will happen to the features that don’t make the money. the people saying… just don’t pay for it if you don’t wanna use it… didn’t change the fact that this is just additional bloat added to something that doesn’t even need it…
they literally already have vscode, which is fantastic… why not just push that a little harder and add features like these over there and not into flipping notepad xD
the tabbing functionality is a godsend and requested. this just feels weird imo
good cause literally anything else is better than notepad so if this pushes people to download literally anything else instead it’s a good development
Linux baby
Feels good
That just raises the next question of which text editor to use
Just use your DE’s default default. Like Kate in KDE.
NotepadQQ if you like Notepad++
I was expecting an eMacs vs vi flame war but somehow you’ve managed to piss off both camps by using a GUI. Well done.
Use GVim then 🤣🤣🤣
Nano or vi or pico or whatever floats your boat 😈
Vim though
Honestly, I’m thoroughly in the nano camp 😂
Oh I don’t really mind what anyone uses, vim is just a lot better than vi in my experience and typically gets aliased to vi when it gets installed. I’d hate for anyone to get vanilla vi with their distro and wonder why so many people like vi not realising most are probably using vim.
EMACS, EMACS, EMACS!
Text editor, not OS!
Are you actually joking
Can’t wait for the task manager to get forced AI support that terminates processes automatically, so that they can paywall it, too…
I have been a Notepad ++ user for years. I sometimes forget that the Microsoft Notepad even exists.
How do I get started on Linux?
Just download Linux Mint and don’t look back. I knew I was done with Windows completely so I quit cold turkey. It forced me to learn how to use Linux instead of running back to a Windows partition. The only reason to dual boot in my opinion is if you need the popular CAD software, or the popular Digital Audio Workstation software, or software like photoshop. If you just browse and game, then you should be fine.
I believe Linux Mint is the oldest beginner distro so it has a wealth of forum posts if you ever have a problem. It also has a bunch of GUI progams included for getting stuff done without terminal, but make no mistake you will have to use the terminal to do stuff on occasion, it all depends how you use you’re computer and how much you want to customize. Don’t be afraid of terminal though, just start with basic YouTube tutorials.
The last piece of advice I feel I should give is when switching to Linux you’ll have to get used to installing software in mutiple ways. Linux Mint is great because you have access to all the major ways software is direstributed on Linux. I use the apt package manager, sometimes by adding new software repos to it, AppImages, Flatpack, and .deb packages. I usually just use whatever method is recommended on a softwares website. For Appimages definitely use the AppImageLauncher manager software.
Last thing. I see a fair number of bad opinions of Cinnamon, the Desktop Environment that ships with Linux Mint, but I’ve never understood why. It’s very familiar to a Windows user, has a simle UI, and has any feature I’ve needed.
That’s my two cents from a relatively recent Windows refugee. I know distro wars can get heated, so remember this is just one opinion on what a good entry point is for the world of Linux.
What have you tried so far?
It boggles the mind the things MS does to their OS without any apparent shame.
Fuck Microsoft. Why bringing Notepad to Microsoft 365 service in the first place? OneNote isn’t good?
Its actually good because its just the LL/VM things
Which shouldn’t be in notepad to start with.
It’s the AI features.
Which have absolutely no place in notepad, and no one asked for.
