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Notepad++ and never look back.

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Crying in Linux 😢

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Use Kate

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Or Kwrite of you want something simple.

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I’ll give it a try, thanks!

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You will you vim and like it. 40 lashes if you have to look up what the hot keys are

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:x

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just use geany or something else…u can customize it to be as useful as notepad++

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Notepadqq

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You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won’t be exactly integrated experience, but it works.

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Just use nano or vim

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its not the same as notepad :(

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vscodium, gedit?

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Kakoune is there for you

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Kwrite

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Add it to wordpad, we use notepad because it’s fast and no bloat.

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Worpad is dead

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If Notepad is getting AI text editing then it’s as good as dead too.

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Maybe for you…

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I’ve been using Notepads (yes with an extra S) instead of Notepad for ages now and it’s a pretty good and fast option with a nice modern design even before MS changed up Notepad.

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Yup, it’s really neat

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i use notepad to paste garbage that needs the formatting stripped out, they better not fuck that up.

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I’m all in on Linux at this point, it already does everything I need but faster

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what do you do if you need to run an app thats windows exclusive? wine?

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not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It’s really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.

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How well does a windows vm run in linux? Does it have hardware acceleration?
Asking because i need something to run photoshop and lightroom, which both need hardware acceleration :/

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thanks

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My solution is to not run that app.

The only Windows-only stuff I have run in the last 15+ years of using Linux are games, and then I just pick one that works out of the box on Steam for Linux. The transition period was rough, but now I just don’t even consider what Windows-only software exists and stick to Linux software, and I’ve solved every problem I’ve had so far.

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need it for work dog

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I still have a 2nd drive with windows on it for davinci because things don’t quite work right in the linux version.

I’m using Bottles for the 1 game I play seriously and it was the only thing keeping windows as my daily driver. it’s been almost a month without booting into windows now.

The real secret is to dual boot and don’t inconvenience yourself. Nothing will turn you off linux more than having limited time to do something specific and needing to spend it all compiling something that just fucking works out of the box on windows.

Use the right tool for the right job and eventually you’ll realize how bad a tool windows has actually become.

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yeah i used to have a ubuntu dual boot machine for years. i just only use it for the program i need, web browsing etc is on the phone anymore

thanks

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Personally haven’t encountered anything that didn’t run on wine or proton. I know shit like Adobe and some multi-player live service games are intentionally made to NOT run on Linux, but I couldn’t care less. If I wanted to burn money for the hell of it, I’d spend it on something fun.

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Cubase

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Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.

Keep going M$! You’re the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍

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They own Linux, too. Just wait for systemd-copilot.

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They dont own it, they just own seats at the foundation table and thats not even 50% of the seats :p

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Even if they owned the whole LF, the Linux Foundation does not develop systemd lol

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Microsoft does not own systemd

And even if they did, and put copilot into it, distros could still choose to not use it

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Nothing you wrote is true. Google Lennart Poettering.

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Just use KDE’s Kate, it’s so much better in every way

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maybe not kate but kwrite. kate is a code editor

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KWrite hasn’t been released by KDE on the Windows app store, Kate has. Using the app store means seamless updates in the background.

Maybe KWrite is available on winget which would make it a bit less inconvenient than manually downloading each update.

Edit: KWrite isn’t available on winget

C:\> winget search kwrite

No package found matching input criteria.

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Love Kate on Linux, but is it just me that Kate on Windows is extremely slow to open compares to literally everything, even Sublime? My system has i7-12800HX and everything is installed on gen 4 NVMe SSDs so specs shouldn’t be an issue.

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Holy hell!

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