Windows 11’s Notepad continues to get Copilot-powered AI features – a handy addition to a tool whose main appeal has always been simplicity and minimalism. Not all users are happy, however, with some saying AI features are overkill.

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  • TriangleSpecialist
    47·
    4 months ago

    Damn, notepad++… I remember feeling so sad that there wasn’t a Linux version back when I ditched Windows.

    Baffles me that this did not get a wildly successful native Linux version in all those years, but it’s probably too late now with VSCode and all the NeoVim fans.

      • TriangleSpecialist
        14·
        4 months ago

        Is there? Releases span between 2017 and 2019, the last of which is a beta, and it is largely unmaintained, with most of the contributions after that being “readme updates” and the odd typo/mistranslation.

        Wouldn’t call that a wildly successful Linux version of notepad++.

        EDIT: reading this again, I don’t know why I sound so needlessly angry, it wasn’t my intention.

        I meant to say this does not sound like a viable alternative from a glance. But if you used it and it’s good I am happy to be proven wrong.

      • kautau
        26·
        4 months ago

        Or Kate, which funny enough now runs on windows

          • TriangleSpecialist
            2·
            4 months ago

            You used to be able to use KDE in windows back in the day even. Lost my shit first time I saw that on a colleague’s laptop.

            • kautau
              2·
              4 months ago

              The virtue of QT based toolkits, which thankfully they haven’t tried to shaft KDE on, as long as the project is open source

      • TriangleSpecialist
        4·
        4 months ago

        Thanks for the recommendation. I did have a short stint with Geany back then, but this was nearly two decades ago now, I have since moved on.

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️English
      5·
      4 months ago

      From the Notepad++ home page:

      Based on the powerful editing component Scintilla, Notepad++ is written in C++ and uses pure Win32 API

      Trying to port it to other platforms is thus nonsensical. It would have to be a ground-up rewrite without the Windows API dependency. And there are indeed various other projects for Linux and other platforms that pretty much replicate its functionality, but they’re by definition not going to be Notepad++.

    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip
      2·
      4 months ago

      and all the NeoVim fans.

      Yes. NeoVim has no business being as good as a drop-in replacement for Notepad, as it is (for people who want that, anyway.)

      Even VSCode isn’t half bad at a quick load, now - as long as it isn’t loading too many plugins.

      NotePad++ is still pretty great, by any measure, though. (Edit: But not good enough to load Windows for, to me.)