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I know who runs that blog, but that's a really exaggerated take. Notepad has had nearly identical UX from Windows 1.0 until 10. Sure, there's a search feature
by einr 9mo ago
I know who runs that blog, but that's a really exaggerated take.
Notepad has had nearly identical UX from Windows 1.0 until 10. Sure, there's a search feature that appeared at some point, ditto with the status bar, at some point they made it able to open files larger than 64K, and apparently you can open files from URLs directly?
Five or so noticable changes in an extremely lightweight and utilitarian application in thirty years is not at all like completely redesigning it into an AI slop machine.
- RajT88 9mo agoTabs and auto-recover are welcome additions (but still cannot compete with the likes of Notepad++).
- einr 9mo agoTabs are fine I guess but also: it's NOTEPAD.EXE. Its purpose to be super primitive and launch in 2 milliseconds and give you a place to paste or type some text real quick. Anyone who needs a good text editor with actual features will just download the good text editor of their choice.
- JohnFen 9mo ago> Tabs and auto-recover are welcome additions They were very unwelcome to me.
- anonymars 9mo agoSimple example of the newly poor UX. I try to start notepad to jot down some scratch. It sluggishly reopens whatever it previously had open (e.g. from before a reboot)...and in doing so, doesn't actually create a new document for me.
- anonymars 9mo agoTo wit: "Second was how he got Notepad to load files so quickly" So much for that