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This is a pretty random Notepad story, but: in 1999 I was doing web development for Internet Explorer 6 (yes, I know) using Classic ASP and Visual Basic (5 or 6? I can't be bothered to look shit like that up). Probably my most important debugging tool was the "View Source" menu option in IE6, which would bring up the raw HTML of whatever page I was working on in Notepad. One day the "View Source" option just stopped working, completely. Clicking that menu wouldn't do anything at all; I tried everything I could think of but just couldn't fix the problem. For six months I was basically coding blind - I had no way of directly seeing the HTML my code was producing.
Somehow I managed to still get my work done. Then one day I stumbled across an obscure forum post that said "View Source" in IE6 would not work if you had a shortcut to Notepad on your Desktop. I of course had a shortcut to Notepad on my Desktop since I kept everything on my desktop (yes, I know). I renamed my shortcut to "NotepadX" and suddenly "View Source" in IE6 started working again. Possibly the happiest day of my programming life. I played around with it and found that it didn't have to actually be a shortcut to Notepad - it could be a shortcut to any program or file, but if it happened to be named "Notepad" it would block View Source from working.
I would give anything to find out where this particular bug came from. It's really bothered the shit out of me for the past 26 years. I don't see how it could ever happen accidentally, so I have to assume that some MS programmer somewhere really hated people with shortcuts to commonly-used programs on their Desktop and decided to punish them.
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Installing cross-platform programs like that is a great way to prepare for a move over to penguin town, and check for any blockers keeping you from making the leap.
I mourn Notepad as well, but Notepad++ is great and it hasn't smeared shit on itself yet.
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Never heard of Tutanota mail, anyone here know anything about it?
I use the free version, it's ok. Not as user friendly of feature packed as gmail. I think they renamed to just "tuta".
I find the web interface and android app are a bit limited - I think you need to pay to get decent searching and autofilter/rules and so on. If stuff is important you need to stick a tag or a folder on it fairly soon othewise it might become hard to find.
Option for encryption, but I rarely use that because I don't trust recipients to understand why they should care.
~~Based . . . can't use that word~~ Located in Germany so believe what you like about GDPR and privacy laws and stuff like that.
Overall I'm happy with it. It's fine for just doing your basic sbemail stuff. It hasn't been good enough to convince me to go for paid version, so I can't say about the paid features.
I use the paid version and it's a huge upgrade. You can administer your own domain, set up a catchall email, arbitrary numbers of emails you can send from, etc.
It's definitely not as snappy as Gmail though.
Notepad had one job. Operate on a damn text file. Operate on the damn text files I choose.
I knew it was going down the drain when I reopened Notepad and it opened the files that were previously open. No. Don't do that. That's overly helpful. You were only supposed to operate on the damn files I chose. These files I'm about to work with aren't necessarily the files I previously worked on. If I want this functionality I might as well open it in vscode.
I'm, like, screw it, might as well keep Emacs running if I need random temporary text editing.
Personally I find that feature (including tabs in general) very helpful and is something i'd expect from a text editor in the 20th century.
Just my opinion. To each their own, but just wanted to share that it might also be many others' opinion too.
I like how the tabs save when I close notepad. Its super helpful when I just need to jot down some quick notes or a serial number or something.
And I'm really dumb so I often close my notepad window before I'm done and this feature has saved me numerous times.
I don't have copilot in my notepad tho. Which is good.
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Meh, sounds like a worse version of notepad++, which has been very popular and reliable since the early 21st century.
If they make notepad more bloated than notepad++ then I'd use it even less.
But each to their own.
See I'd use Notepad++ if I was coding or doing any kind of actual file editing.
However, when I'm at work and need to take a phone call, the tabs in Notepad and the auto saving are literally game changing for me.
That being said I haven't bothered with the AI stuff in it at all, and it feels as usual, Microsoft doesn't stop when they have a Good Thing already, they keep pushing it beyond that point for their interests. And now we're left with not a basic editor but a personal assistant.
Long live Linux and freedom of choice.
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People complain that Linux is inconvenient but then prostrate themselves upon the broken, buggy, ad-infested spyware that is Windows. Doesn't seem very convenient to me. This person thought that their Notepad data was private before Copilot? Ha!
"convenient" ≠ "best option" or even "easiest option".
Linux is inconvenient because they would have to go out of their way to switch to it. Windows is convenient because it's right there and ready to go on essentially any computer.
And people dont care about "best" or "easiest" options because to most people a computer is just a means to an end.
Sadly most people grow up using and are tought Windows from the first time they touch a computer so its quirks and workarounds of bugs are engrained in the users mind.
Uprooting their entire (current) knowlegebase is inconvenient.. but it's still for the greater good of their privacy and in my opinion effectiveness of whatever they do.
The fundamental roadblock here is: people are generally done with 'learning' when they become adult. Not learning computers or software, or anything else in particular. Just learning. There seems to be a somewhat common idea that 'education' and 'learning' is for children, and as an adult, you should have better things to do. Sadly, we can see all around where such an idea leads us.
IMO usually a lot easier than learning Windows too. But I can understand them not knowing that if they've never tried. All they know about Linux is that it's nerdy and technical.
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Use Copilot to write your own Notepad. With Blackjack. And hookers.
linux is definetly not all of that anymore.
but yes, one step at a time, its time will come for ya.
I'm gradually immersing myself in Linux until my Macbook loses macOS support, at which point I'll go full time on Asahi, having learned the ropes from Mint on my old Mac mini.
There are still some things that send me scuttling back to macOS, glad that Preview exists with its easy to operate editing and PDF viewing. But I'll learn to make that stuff second nature in Linux. Eventually.
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