Comment by GuB-42
10 months ago
How did it get that big? On my Windows 10, notepad.exe is 196 kB, I remembered it being under 100 kB, but it did get a few more features in the last years. Anyways, hard to judge considering that a good part of the original Notepad is likely to be standard Win32 components.
Anyways, none of these "mainsteam" apps hold a candle to sizecoding productions. Just look like what comes out of Lovebyte, a demoparty where no production is above 1 kB.
Win11 notepad has multiple tabs and previous session saving, which is nice. But it also has a bunch of other crap such as copilot integration and it's logged into your Microsoft account.
For anyone interested and I don't see this advice posted anywhere enough, you can uninstall the bloated Win11 notepad version from settings -> apps and Notepad will revert back to the plain text version we all know and love (which now stands at 352kb).
One of the lucky 10000 on this one I guess. Thanks!
Microsoft recently added both Copilot integration and rich text formatting (!) options to stock Win11 Notepad. Fortunately, they can be turned off for now.
I do like that the rich text support allows converting to/from Markdown, but I still prefer plaintext mode.
So Notepad quickly went from decades of not having the most basic features, like support for UNIX like endings and files larger than a few kBs, to a 25 MB monstrosity...
As if they tried to avoid the sweet spot the best they could.
I thought copilot integration was sarcasm.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri...
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It's insidious. Mercedes Benz is doing Copilot integration!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583520
I think they moved it to .net, made it a store app, dark mode and copilot ai.