nhaneh:

e-bommel:

waynekiller:

recreationaldivorce:

After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

If you want full access to Notepad, Microsoft now requires users to pay, with the new changes to 40-year-old software adopting the 'freemium

TweakTown

here’s libreoffice, its similar enough to the microsoft suite to be useful to me.

its a free open source software. i downloaded this as soon as the AI shit rolled around and i stopped using MS suite & google docs because i was fucking tired of everything being online, but now if MS is gonna start charging for shit that should be free, only the more reason to use other programs. i know microsoft can be a little hard to escape but this is at least a start

notepad ++ it’s free, it’s slim, it has tabs, notepad but better in literally every way, you can customize it with tons of plugins, it’s pretty much the standard in any IT company I’ve ever been at

Notepad++

notepad-plus-plus.org

absolutely going to add a thumbs up for Notepad++ - it does everything the old regular notepad does and far more, including tabs, while still being significantly more lightweight than the “updated” notepad that Microsoft put into Windows 11.

seriously the W11 notepad uses like 40-something megabytes of memory while running idle for some reason???