After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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we know better than you do” mentality towards design
And I agree with them. I think people should pick whatever desktop environment needs the least amount of customization for their needs. Keep it simple. If Gnome works out of the box, use it. If KDE works out of the box, use it.
This is Gnomes biggest advantage to be honest. They have a singular vision of how they want their product to work and they aren't concerned with edge uses.
I enjoy elements of so many DEs but I keep coming back to gnome because it's just so well executed over the others.
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I love Kate, but I've only been using it since last August. Been using npp for a decade before that, even as my IDE, and I felt like it was stronger than Kate.
Kate has a lot of features that are not well documented or that you have to tape together to make something functional, while npp just works out of the box or with one of its many addons. Additionally the Kate documentation website is atrocious, lacking even basic search functionality. I had to join their IRC channel to get help figuring out something (path to some obscure config file that the latest version actually reads from), and while they were most helpful, I really shouldn't have had to go through all that trouble.
Maybe my approach to trying to solve a problem was wrong, coming from Windows + npp.
Maybe I'll give npp a test again. But I've been using kate because I've been using it on my linux system and found out I can install it at work on windows as well
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Time to try my newly-released text editor lol.
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Notepad++ FTW
How about jottr? https://github.com/mfat/jottr
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Finally, I can proudly proclaim that I'm no longer bound Microsoft's bullshit. Been a rocky start, but I've been happily using Kubuntu on my Surface for a while now, and it's going awesome
Hey, great for you! Which Surface do you have and did you get the camera(s) working properly?
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All the Linux posts and Linux loving Lemmy users are what keep me away from Linux.
They’re like the Rick and Morty fans of PC software
Guess that's what happens when Windows drives me insane
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My understanding of the different operating systems
MacOS: One time hardware payment for their service (plus for every other device)
Linux: Free as in price free and freedom
Windows: 30+ subscriptions to edit 1 file, then cooldown till next day or upgrade subscriptions to enterpise version for a kidney/per user/per month.
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ChomeOS: Communism for the children, supported by the Education System
:::imo macOS is better value than Windows. A Windows PC of similar quality to what Apple offers (built quality and specs) is not that much cheaper and with a Mac you get a ton of actually usable software included.
Obviously FOSS still wins offering a ton of good software for free, lots of choice and the option to choose from hardware at any price point. But Windows is just bad unless you're an enterprise user or gamer (and the latter is changing fast in Linux favour).
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Hey, great for you! Which Surface do you have and did you get the camera(s) working properly?
It's a Surface Go 2, 8GB RAM, I think - maybe 4 - and a couple years old now. Haven't tried, actually, since I rarely if ever need the cameras. However, I read that getting the cameras to work is a bit of a hassle. Not impossible but annoying
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imo macOS is better value than Windows. A Windows PC of similar quality to what Apple offers (built quality and specs) is not that much cheaper and with a Mac you get a ton of actually usable software included.
Obviously FOSS still wins offering a ton of good software for free, lots of choice and the option to choose from hardware at any price point. But Windows is just bad unless you're an enterprise user or gamer (and the latter is changing fast in Linux favour).
Have you ever built PCs? Macs are significantly more expensive for the same spec
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Have you ever built PCs? Macs are significantly more expensive for the same spec
I guess for desktops you have a point, especially if you build it yourself. I was thinking of laptops mostly and also considering the build quality and things like the keyboard/trackpad, screen and speaker quality. If you want something comparable running Windows the price difference isn't going to be massive.
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Well it's a good thing there's no shortage of free replacements.
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This is misinformation. They added the login requirement for their Generative AI and the actual notepad doesn't require a login. But I guess we're ragebaiting today.
Having this LLM bullshit in Notepad should be the real news
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My understanding of the different operating systems
MacOS: One time hardware payment for their service (plus for every other device)
Linux: Free as in price free and freedom
Windows: 30+ subscriptions to edit 1 file, then cooldown till next day or upgrade subscriptions to enterpise version for a kidney/per user/per month.
::: spoiler Title
ChomeOS: Communism for the children, supported by the Education System
:::Apple heavily pushes their users towards iCloud subscriptions. More so on iOS than macOS but still.
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Notepad++ FTW
Sublime Text for me. It has some nifty features that NP++ doesn't, and looks better out of the box.
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Linux is as messy and more as the apartment where I live (really bad).
If you want the operating system to make sense, use OpenBSD (no Wine, no Linux emulation, thus only native games) or NetBSD (there is Wine and Linux emulation, but limited) or FreeBSD (generally can do the same as Linux), but all three port graphics drivers from Linux with significant lag, and hardware support is worse in general.
And Microsoft facilitates fascism
There's a lot of Linux in systems that governments and militaries use.
Throw away your phone,
Yes, right. Also change job so that an Android device for 2FA weren't a requirement. And get used that I can't communicate with someone over TG/WA/VK in transport.
And still be surveilled, because the information you give about yourself without an Android phone is sufficient, carrying one is a symbolic decapitation of your privacy and dignity, "symbolic" is the word.
What a sycophantic shitlord.
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Finally, I can proudly proclaim that I'm no longer bound Microsoft's bullshit. Been a rocky start, but I've been happily using Kubuntu on my Surface for a while now, and it's going awesome
I have a lenovo yoga 14s which is similarly transformable. Are there good resources put there for installing linux on this kind of laptop?
Honestly Windows on it is just a nightmare and I'd love to ditch it.
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What a sycophantic shitlord.
Something insulted you in my comment or you feel the urge to take sides in things you most likely haven't compared? Linux is a mess compared to BSDs. Anyone who used them all can confirm this.
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Something insulted you in my comment or you feel the urge to take sides in things you most likely haven't compared? Linux is a mess compared to BSDs. Anyone who used them all can confirm this.
You mean the entire fucking world where *BSD is basically dead and Linux is fucking everywhere? Yeah... sure, buddy.
*BSD has always been a poor alternative to Linux because of design decisions, poor hardware support, and a garbage license that allows non-free software to steal and use your code irresponsibly. *BSD sucks.
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Is the Genevieve AI enabled by default?
After opening the notepad app does it ask you for that login?
Is your access to notepad restricted by the login?
No, only in so far as the button to use it existing passively
No
And no
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I have a lenovo yoga 14s which is similarly transformable. Are there good resources put there for installing linux on this kind of laptop?
Honestly Windows on it is just a nightmare and I'd love to ditch it.
Nothing I could find immediately. I found an Arch Wiki entry which shows that most features work out of the box. Not sure if that's your exact model and can't comment on how reliable the information presented is too.
