Notepad on Windows 11 is finally getting a character count::Microsoft is finally adding a character count to Notepad on Windows 11. It’s in testing alongside the ability to hide the news feed in the widgets panel.
I mean it’s a good change, but it doesn’t exactly overcome all the bloat, spying, MS messing with your settings, inconsistencies, dark patterns, and ads in Windows.
E: presumably the downvoters love ads and data harvesting? You do you lol
People use Notepad?
When Notepad++ exists?
I know a few people who use it to covert selections to plain text or keep a quick note. Notepad++ is more akin to an IDE if anything.
Ctrl + Shift + V will paste a selection in plain text.
Also I keep quick notes in Notepad++ because it’s just as easy to open and it has persistent windows in case something happens.
Ctrl + Shift + V will paste a selection in plain text.
*Sometimes
Because MS in their infinite Wisdom only baked that functionality into some of their apps, and even in some apps where that functionality exists, sometimes it’s a different keybind.
I thought wordpad was going away.
Microsoft is so incredibly desperate to stop people from installing Linux that they’ll do everything other than making a good operating system or anything else that matters
No, they’re really not. When was the last time you looked up the stats for household OSs being used?
You might want to consider improving your understanding of this a little bit before dropping it in the chat.
You lost me with all the ads baked into the OS. You’re not gonna win me back with… checks notes Notepad.
