Comment by maremmano

18 days ago

I’m on version 8.8.8, which says a lot.

This time I unfortunately have to move on from Notepad++. Vibes have been negative for a while but out of inertia (and because there weren't obvious alternatives) I never pulled the trigger. Now it's time. The trust is gone.

Thanks NP++ for being free and useful for so many years.

Can anyone suggest a solid alternative on Windows? I'm fine with Linux and macOS but I have to keep a Windows machine around for some legacy, win only, software.

Maybe Sublime Text could be an option? At this point I'd rather pay for something lightweight, fast, and probably better.

I don't like tooling that increases my exposure to bad state actors (whatever state they're from).

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nhinck3  18 days ago

> I don't like tooling that increases my exposure to bad state actors

> Can anyone suggest a solid alternative on Windows

What a weird reason to switch. I don't know why you'd believe any other piece of software is somehow more secure against state actors.

  • rdiddly  17 days ago

    Are we supposed to ignore announcements of documented compromises then? Or are you saying compromised software is the safest of all?

nzd  18 days ago

Sublime Text. It's art.

  • hansifer  17 days ago

    It was great 10 years ago before VS Code, but Sublime has been abandonware for years now.

    • maremmano  13 days ago

      I got both Sublime and VSCode. Sublime is a work of love. You can probably do more things with vscode, but I'm not sure you can do many of these things better or faster than sublime. I don't think so.