Good.
Anybody who misses it should use LibreOffice instead.
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Is wordpad, notepad?
no, they are separate. wordpad supports rtf and word documents (sort of)
WordPad was in that weird area between Notepad and Word (oh I get it, WordPad). I nevel felt like there was much use for it.
In the 90s, there was no LibreOffice/OpenOffice, and Word was expensive. It did rich text WYSIWYG formatting for free. Was never great, but it was functional.
Not much point to it anymore, though.
It was useful back in Windows 98 when Notepad wouldn't open anything bigger than 64KB.
That's about the last time I used it.
For all intents and purposes it was free word
I haven't really used word in over half a decade since TeX beats it in every conceivable way.
Wordpad was useful in the sparse few cases where I was forced to open a .doc or .docx and couldn't be arsed to upload the file to Google docs
I guess it will be missed for that
Don't worry lads, there'll be several open source clones of this within weeks all with various missing functionality. You won't have to be without for long. 😂
AbiWord was probably the closest as a FLOSS equivalent?
Isn't that dead too?
Sadly yeah. Hence “was” ☹️
I just use libreoffice or vim for general text stuff I haven't used WordPad in 28 years. Was it ever able to edit Ms word documents? I feel like there was a reason I didn't use it.
Believe it dealt in rich text format rtf by default, think it was too limited for docx but I'm open to being corrected
Reject modern GUI text editors, embrace Vim
<ESC>
:q!
I've been using for the last 2 years becuase I don't know how to exit it.
I legitimately loled, we've all been there.
:wq The sacred knowledge
You mean "Esc Esc Del Esc Ctrl-C Ctrl-C Ctrl-X Ctrl-Q Esc Esc F11 Ctrl-Z Del Del Del Del F11 F12 F2 Backspace Esc Esc fn0wosnfosjvopakgnapociwbsopalfnnqod9gjbqnspfojwbab9fiehjr "
Nah that's emacs
Hopefully you find a way out........please let me know if you have found a way out.
Doom emacs is superior
Emacs is a fine operating system, lacking only a good text editor.
Edit: For the record, I code in emacs every day at work. (Please send help.)
Oh I definitely agree - and highly recommend checking out doom emacs to solve that. It's emacs configured to use vim keybinds instead (and other QOL features). It adds a bit less than 200 add-ons by default, but they're only loaded as needed so startup time is still <1 second
Eh, I’ve got so many keybindings and scripts and changes already and I actually quite like my setup. Not looking to learn vim keybindings beyond the ones I know (essentially how to close vim 😁).
Oh well, Windows has become that one OS I use for one or two things that I complain every time I have to spin up my VM to use.
I only use it to play games, mainly a heavily modded Skyrim. It's just too much of a pain in the ass to get MO2 to launch the Linux version of Steam so that I can use Proton to launch SKSE. I finally managed to get it to work once and was getting at 15 FPS on my RTX 3070.
I play modded skyrim (700+ mods) with my steam deck, runs great
I'm gonna guess you're not using MO2 though, that's the biggest headache, along with using tools like Nemesis, Xedit, Synthesis and Dyndolod.
I love the steam deck, but 25FPS isn’t great
It's more than playable imo, tiny screen, sitting on the couch... the switch can't even achieve a solid 30 fps on exclusive titles... I've played games with worse framerates on the deck
700 mods Skyrim plays worse than fuckin TotK on a switch
I say this as a person who only played TotK on a computer.
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