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How did it get that big? On my Windows 10, notepad.exe is 196 kB, I remembered it being under 100 kB, but it did get a few more features in the last years. Anyw
by GuB-42 1y ago
How did it get that big? On my Windows 10, notepad.exe is 196 kB, I remembered it being under 100 kB, but it did get a few more features in the last years. Anyways, hard to judge considering that a good part of the original Notepad is likely to be standard Win32 components.
Anyways, none of these "mainsteam" apps hold a candle to sizecoding productions. Just look like what comes out of Lovebyte, a demoparty where no production is above 1 kB.
- hypercube33 1y agoI think they moved it to .net, made it a store app, dark mode and copilot ai.
- pixl97 1y agoWin11 notepad has multiple tabs and previous session saving, which is nice. But it also has a bunch of other crap such as copilot integration and it's logged into your Microsoft account.
- accrual 1y agoMicrosoft recently added both Copilot integration and rich text formatting (!) options to stock Win11 Notepad. Fortunately, they can be turned off for now. I do like that the rich text support allows converting to/from Markdown, but I still prefer plaintext mode.
- reconnecting 1y agoI thought copilot integration was sarcasm.
- pixl97 1y agohttps://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-writing-with-ai-in-notepad-4088b954-c97b-46dc-813f-959be01746d5 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri...
- reconnecting 1y agoUntil now, I thought the underlined-bold-red text in official announcements was the worst thing Microsoft bring into humans culture, but it seems there's something even bigger coming.
- consumer451 1y agoIt's insidious. Mercedes Benz is doing Copilot integration! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583520 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583520
- GuB-42 1y agoSo Notepad quickly went from decades of not having the most basic features, like support for UNIX like endings and files larger than a few kBs, to a 25 MB monstrosity... As if they tried to avoid the sweet spot the best they could.
- x______________ 1y agoFor anyone interested and I don't see this advice posted anywhere enough, you can uninstall the bloated Win11 notepad version from settings -> apps and Notepad will revert back to the plain text version we all know and love (which now stands at 352kb).
- Koffiepoeder 1y agoOne of the lucky 10000 on this one I guess. Thanks!