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.
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.
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...
Until now, I thought the underlined-bold-red text in official announcements was the worst thing Microsoft bring into humans culture, but it seems there's something even bigger coming.
It's insidious. Mercedes Benz is doing Copilot integration!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583520