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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Windows victims: go ahead and pretend you don't want or need
 the greatest PC software available
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 00:30:02 -0000 (UTC)
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Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> wrote at 21:14 this Tuesday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
>>Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 12:52 this Tuesday (GMT):
>>> On Tue, 14 May 2024 01:50:13 +0000, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>>> Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote at 00:25 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>>>
>>>>> To be fair, no one uses Windows' system apps. WordPad's lack of use, in
>>>>> particular, is a shame. It really was more than most people needed.
>>>> 
>>>> Notepad usually filled that need.. and it was the default. Though a
>>>> random fun fact, WordPad is stored in Win32, making it technically a
>>>> system-required app.
>>>
>>> Yet it is no longer going to be loaded onto computer using new Windows 11 
>>> versions. I presure people will still be able to install it through the 
>>> Optional System Components or whatever it is called, but it won't be there 
>>> by default. You'll need to use the online office.com suite instead. It is 
>>> better, but your documents are stored on Microsoft's servers, and you need 
>>> to be online to use it... as far as I know.
>>
>>I'm sorry /what/.
>>They're /removing notepad/?!
>>That is the STUPIDEST THING THEY COULD DO!
>>Absolutely ridiculous... how are you supposed to edit text files without
>>wifi then??
>
>
> He was talking about WordPad, not Notepad, although the "new" version
> of the latter in Win11 is borked, I had to get a third party text
> editor that Chris V. recommended (which was better than the classic
> Notepad, I must say, more like what I have with Mint now).  WordPad is
> a relic, to say the least, if one wants something more than a text
> editor, just get LO, I would say, that's all I ever used, regardless
> of OS, for 20 years.


OK, that's more reasonable.. still a bit sad to remove though.
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