Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11
LibreOffice is a good solution for anything one would use Office or WordPad for. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.
It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).
Likely feels that way because it has to load the Java runtime before launching.
LibreOffice is also available as a Flatpak:
Outside of that. And keeping in mind WordPad was a standalone rich text editor:
Kate is pretty swell too:
Or slim down to Kwrite:
I myself am also mostly writing in markdown on Obsidian:
Markdown has definitely replaced most of what I used wordpad for. Obsidian is nice, but I’ll also write markdown in vscode or even just vim. It all works and even when it’s not interpreted, it still looks readable. Plus since it’s all just text, easily converted, and widely supported, I don’t have to worry about format deprecation.
Notepad++ 👍
Seems kinda sad. I doubt it’s a program many people use (or even know of) these days, but there is an odd charm to super simple rich text editors like WordPad and TextEdit in macOS.
I suppose AbiWord sorta fills that niche as a replacement.
Anyone remember Microsoft Office’s weird cousin, Works?
Oh well, Windows has become that one OS I use for one or two things that I complain every time I have to spin up my VM to use.
I only use it to play games, mainly a heavily modded Skyrim. It’s just too much of a pain in the ass to get MO2 to launch the Linux version of Steam so that I can use Proton to launch SKSE. I finally managed to get it to work once and was getting at 15 FPS on my RTX 3070.
It was “Write” before Win95.
