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>There’s no reason to be outraged by this decision, as WordPad has been out-of-date for years and is barely usable for its intended purpose, which was to replac
by jiofj 3y ago
>There’s no reason to be outraged by this decision, as WordPad has been out-of-date for years and is barely usable for its intended purpose, which was to replace to view and edit rich text files (RTF, or *.rtf).
It can open and edit docx files, no? MS has suggested Office as an alternative, but Office costs money, so yes, this is lost functionality.
And no I am not interested in uploading my docx files to google docs or microsoft office online to edit them, as they may contain private information.
- smoldesu 3y agoAre you too good for LibreOffice?
- vouaobrasil 3y agoLibreOffice is good for a lot of tasks but it's bloated, and takes time to start up. Wordpad is great for all sorts of quick tasks when you just need to edit a quick RTF like a poster or some basic letter, and don't want to stare at a ribbon full of functions you'll never use.
- drzaiusapelord 3y agoLO for Windows launches with a launcher that pre-loads it a boot time. I find Writer to be pretty pleasantly light-weight on a modern computer. A lot of its performance shortcomings are a bit exaggerated especially on modern equipment.
- toast0 3y agoPre-loading at boot time is a tradeoff, and it'd be nicer not to have to pay it. Cold load times aren't terrible on modern systems, but wordpad is much faster. (Microsoft Office isn't great at fast loading either).
- jiofj 3y agoLibreOffice doesn't come preinstalled with Windows. It also is very bloated compared to WordPad.
- alexvitkov 3y agoyes i am, i edit the xml directly in ed.
- RockRobotRock 3y agoYes.
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- Karellen 3y agoLibreOffice isn't exactly lightweight, but it is a Free (as in beer, and as in speech) local alternative. https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download-libreoffice/ edit: Huh, it's even less lightweight for Windows. The Linux downloads come in around 200-220MiB, but the Windows downloads are around 320-350MiB. Weird.
- spirit557 3y agoi was going to suggest abiword but even their website is gone now? first itunes apple movie trailers and now wordpad
- niutech 3y agoYou can still download Abiword from other websites e.g. https://filehippo.com/download_abiword/ https://filehippo.com/download_abiword/
- alexvitkov 3y agoI'm not sure if that's the case for LibreOffice, but it's common for FOSS projects to have fatter binaries for Windows, since they're often using a bunch of wrappers to get POSIX-y things to work Windows. In this case they're also shipping rpm/deb packages, it's likely that on Linux they use your system's GTK and in Windows they bundle it.
- Karellen 3y ago> it's likely that on Linux they use your system's GTK and in Windows they bundle it. They have their own toolkit - VCL - which has GTK and Qt backends for Linux, and a native Windows backend for Windows.
- alexvitkov 3y agothank you for correcting my misinformation!
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