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Virtual Desktops Hyper-v Default notepad that understands linux style line endings Default ISO mounting support without having to download sketchy tools Def

• Jedd 5y ago
  Thanks for the thoughtful list. At the risk of sounding churlish, the last three can be done on earlier versions of Microsoft Windows, for varying degrees of downloading 'sketchy tools'. Notepad.exe upgrade occurred last year I think? But one feels like Microsoft could have done that at any time in the past 3 decades. I suspect anyone who was hurt by this was likely to long since shifted to Notepad++. Virtual Desktops are indeed a compelling feature, which I've relied on with KDE since last century -- though I still haven't tried them on a Windows box. Hyper-V -- I've used this a few times on Windows 10, though I believe it's not available on the most common version of the OS, right? I'm using Pro and Education versions - which do have the feature. Luckily I said compared to Windows XP, because Hyper-V's been available since Windows 8 / Server 2008.
• infinitezest 5y ago
  My guess is that most users of Windows won't even know what items 2-4 even mean much less find them a boon to their every day workflows. They're nice but they don't seem like the sort of things that couldn't just be added to XP/7.
• adrian_b 5y ago
  While you are right that older Notepads were annoying because they could not handle other line endings except CR LF, Wordpad could always handle them. So the solution on Windows XP or other old Windows versions was to change all text file associations from Notepad to Wordpad and everything was fine.