It’s so stupid that they’re making these additions to notepad. There is a need to have a basic text editor on an OS that isn’t going to try to “help” by giving recommendations, automatically backs up files or whatever other shit they’re trying to jam into it.
They had wordpad and if they wanted to add additional features into that, that’s completely fine. There are use cases for something that does a bit more than a simple text editor like notepad can do.
My guess is that they tracked that people used notepad more often than wordpad so they removed wordpad. Then started making notepad more like wordpad without considering why people used notepad more frequently.
And around 20 years ago I did go all-in Linux.
Notepad++ is way better anyway
They could’ve added this to wordpad if they didn’t kill it.
Good thing whenever I set up Windows, Notepad is one of the things I nuke, using Geany to replace it.
