Comment by pixl97

10 months ago

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.

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x______________  10 months ago

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).

accrual  10 months ago

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.

GuB-42  10 months ago

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.

reconnecting  10 months ago

I thought copilot integration was sarcasm.