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From: Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net>
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Subject: Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2025?
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 18:19:10 -0700
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On 6/2/2025 7:13 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:37:42 -0400, Xocyll <Xocyll@gmx.com> wrote:
> 
>> Fucking Win11!
> 
>> MS peaked with win7, it's only gotten worse since then.
>> Hate to think what 12 and 13 will be like.
> 
> My favorite new "ohmigod, why is Windows 11 like that?" discovery is
> that Notepad, if you shrink down the app's window-size to about
> 800x600 pixels across, also starts cropping its dialog boxes... even
> if they'd still fit perfectly in that reduced space.
> 
> E.g., smallify the notepad window, and your "find" dialog box loses
> the "replace all" button until you stretch the window out again... and
> there's no evidence that it's done so except that the button is just
> gone.
> 
> And I know, 'why are you using windows notepad anyway; there are so
> many better options' but it's the default on Windows for TXT files and
> I've never bothered to change it even though -for most things- I do
> use other apps for text editing.
> 
> But it's this sort of rampant "we know what you want better than you
> do" attitude which permeates Windows11 (and really, all of Windows
> ever since Win7) that makes using it such a chore. God knows where
> else this sort of behavior appears.
> 
> (Microsoft is also adding fonts and font-effects (bold,underline,
> colors) to Notepad in the next update. Because that's what people want
> from a plain-text editor apparently.)
> 
No.  Its what MS wants to do to get rid of plain text editors entirely.

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