After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad
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People at Microsoft doesn't understand what people use Notepad for.
If they wanted to add AI features, they should have added it to WordPad, and make it more modern.
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I think programs that we think of as being part of the OS, such as the included text editor, is a very different thing to something like Steam.
Steam isn't preinstalled on your PC, it's not a core part of your desktop OS. You download Steam yourself, and you only do it once you know what it is.
Besides, even if that weren't the case, another dev doing it doesn't mean KDE should.
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Clickbait.
Notepad is still free. If you want to use Rewrite, then you pay for that. -
I usually use my work laptop for personal bits and bobs which is Ubuntu but I turned on my personal Microsoft PC recently to do some stuff and couldn't believe all the pop-ups and noise! I promptly moved all my data onto a external drive and did a fresh install of Ubuntu.
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Indeed. That's what I do on my Plasma system, it's a good option.
But a new user or someone who isn't technical won't see that, they don't go digging through settings in each app, they just use the defaults.
I guess a solid compromise would be to enable this by default, and anybody who doesn't like that short descriptor can disable it.
But IMO nothing will beat the no-nonsense straightforwardness of calling OS apps immediately intuitive names. This is something I believe Gnome gets right. Go onto their GitHub and their file manager is called Nautilus, but on your system it will default to being called "Files", because they know everyone will understand what "Files" is but a lot of people would ask "Wtf is Nautilus??", same goes for other apps, e.g. "Loupe" appearing as "Image Viewer".
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Heck, it probably can be done with a regex. (Yeah, I know)
There's no need to kill three forests just to do the exact same work you could have done by opening your dataset in Excel.
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Yeah but no one uses wordpad. They put it in notepad for the exact reason you're saying: because people use it.
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They killed wordpad.
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I'm a happy sublime user myself but the search UI is one thing I particularly don't like about it.
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I can understand separating a new paid-only feature, especially if you don't much need that part. The new features are reportedly accessible from the GUI of Notepad so I wouldn't blame anyone else who thought "NOTEPAD" asked them to sign up and pay a subscription to use "NOTEPAD" features.
I used to rage when reading bad changes to Windows, even after I'd stopped using it. Now I just feel bad that my friends are still in that a bad relationship with their computer.
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isn't the paywall for notepad buying windows and a computer?
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Fucking click bait garbage article, but thankfully the article has a tldr that basically contradicts the headline
TL;DR: Microsoft has introduced a paywall for Notepad, requiring a Microsoft 365 subscription to access new features like the AI-powered Rewrite tool.
Better headline: Microsoft forces you to pay to suffer through using their AI tool that no one asked for, application otherwise unchanged.
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Eh. They shared those features to Notepad, so I would agree that they're a part of it.
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Kate isn't a part of the OS, though... the text editor that is a part of the OS is called "vi".
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Add it to OneNote then?
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If they made it more useful, people would use it. Making support for modern formats, maybe even Markdown could have been added and it would already be 5x more useful.
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Can't wait for them to remove Calculator, since you can ask AI to calculate stuff, you know.
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I dint think it's ragebait/clickbait. I think it's really problematic that just a simple text editor get this bad by enshittification.
