After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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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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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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How about jottr? https://github.com/mfat/jottr
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Hey, great for you! Which Surface do you have and did you get the camera(s) working properly?
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Guess that's what happens when Windows drives me insane
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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).
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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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Have you ever built PCs? Macs are significantly more expensive for the same spec
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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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Having this LLM bullshit in Notepad should be the real news
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Apple heavily pushes their users towards iCloud subscriptions. More so on iOS than macOS but still.
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Sublime Text for me. It has some nifty features that NP++ doesn't, and looks better out of the box.
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What a sycophantic shitlord.
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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.
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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.
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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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No, only in so far as the button to use it existing passively
No
And no
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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.
