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It's easier to disable all the garbage than remove the garbage?
Microslop needs to read the fucking room.
But, they won't change course till it starts costing them too much money. They have a virtual monopoly with business and gaming computers, but that there are very good options now. You know what I'm sayin'! Spread the word.
I would argue that the monopoly on gaming is kinda ending because of valve.
I love the fact that valve was like the fat kid on the playground getting picked on and came out of nowhere with a left hook.
don't get me wrong, they're the hero in this instance, but they're still a business trying to make money.
Copilot is just a spy watching everything you type and do. I don't even know how it's not ilegal de facto.
And de jure
Lol, just today i noticed Copilot was on notepad, and rushed to disable that thing. Fuck Microsoft
Someone made a notepad++ package that runs through Wine, it's on snap. Haven't tried it though.
sudo snap install notepad-plus-plus
notepadqq is the "fan-made" linux version of notepad++ for linux
Sublime is pretty popular too but i dont like it
I like Kate.
Yeah. First I felt sorry for leaving Notepad++ behind, but then I got introduced to Kate. Kate is awesome and so flexible.
Now even my wife loves Kate.
Seems like a great thing at first, y'know, wife AND Kate? Awesome!
Next thing you know, it's "Kate does this, why don't you?" and "You don't satisfy me the way Kate does", then "Kate and I are going to go on a cruise together." Before you know it, it's "I think it's time we took a break, I need to focus on my relationship with Kate"; before you know it, you're living by yourself in a van down by the river!
Yeah,indeed the wife and Kate were on a business trip together, but I don't mind. The wife hates Cruises though and the woods here a wonderful.
This. Kate is awesome!
For those who want to stick with Windows, Notepad++ is far superior anyway.
Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn't really have a full featured native Linux alternative (as of my last deep search around June 2025).
I use Kate pretty much the same way I used Notepad++, except I think I like Kate better since it clicks with my brain. It also probably(?) has more features.
I can second Kate. It's pretty good.
Same, I was using sublime text but it's paid and I was just ignoring the messages so I switched to kate
I don't know what you'd consider an alternative exactly, but Sublime Text is quite good and lightweight
Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn’t really have a full featured native Linux alternative
Geany and Notepad++ are built on the same text editing component.
Remember, Windows will install updates without user intervention. If you remove things, it just puts them back.
Automatic updates are a good thing for the average EU, though. Otherwise they'd never update and their system would probably be compromised.
yeah but they're not doing just security updates, they're re-installing bloatware that I deleted a year ago
I don't need Xbox gaming on my work computer
Automatic, yes.
Forced without consent with no option to disable them? No.
Because Linux is still an enormous hurdle for a lot of people, and completely incompatible with lots of proprietary hardware people actually need.
Stop pretending like you don't understand why 98% of PC users still choose Windows. I'm not one of them, but let's not delude ourselves, it is tiring.
98% of Windows users, use windows because that’s what the OS that came with the computer they could afford.
98% of windows users probably don’t know what version they are on or even what windows is
Gmail has started injecting a fat "Suggestions for responding to emails" feature into my composition space. Really fucking annoying when you're trying to type something out on a phone. No idea how to begin disabling it, I couldn't find configurations anywhere in the settings.
I've had this email address for over 20 years. Not looking forward to changing it. But enshitification won't stop.
I access my gmail on my phone browser (I hate email apps because of how intrusive they can be), and for a while it was nice. I didn't need to enable javascript, gmail just worked.
Then they got rid of the HTML-only frontend, and so I used the javascript frontend, and gmail just worked.
Then they started adding a "Please use the App" banner every Nth time I login. For now, it's... fine.
Once they get rid of the mobile javascript frontend? Yes, I might have to try using email apps again
Thunderbird is ready to welcome you back. It never left. Email belongs in a dedicated apllication, not a web frontend
Many people have a sort of learned helplessness. They don't really know computer fundamentals, they get scared and stressed so they stop thinking, and then they don't want to deal with it.
People aren't rational. They're emotional.
What's that word Satya Nadella wanted spread far and wide? Oh right, "Microslop"
Anywhere they can record user input is considered fair game. They give not a smidge of care about user privacy at all