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cm0002@lemmy.world to Enshittification@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

www.tweaktown.com

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After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

www.tweaktown.com

cm0002@lemmy.world to Enshittification@lemmy.world · 3 months ago
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    Fair, I just don’t like how cluttered Notepad++ feels.

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      I’ve never heard of notepad++ being referred to as cluttered before. It’s fairly spartan in my opinion.

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        Cluttered compared to Notepad or Sublime Text.

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      Agreed, coming from regular Notepad there’s a lot going on there. The whole point of Notepad was a quick and dirty text editor. If I needed that many options for what I’m writing I’ll just fire up Word instead.

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        That’s why I like Sublime - it’s powerful enough to be my main code editor, and clean enough to jot down some quick notes.

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          Huh, never heard of Sublime before. I’ll give that a try!

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            The developer is also Australian, so it’s still a good option if you’re boycotting US products.

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      Some people would call that “functionality”.

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        Sublime Text has all that functionality and more without stealing precious screen space from your valuable text.

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          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?

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            No, it’s not vi.

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