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The community to look for microsoft alternatives.
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We don't care. We use Notepad++ instead. I don't know when I last saw Notepad and I don't miss it.
Notepad++ is great but there is absolutely value in having decent built in tools. You can't always install third party apps everywhere you need a simple application to write or edit some text.
One more reason not to get Windows 11. When 10 support is done, I will be looking to Linux. And I hate Linux.
I installed Mint a few days ago, and it's surprisingly easy to use!
I’m not sure why you hate Linux but while it took me a long while to get really comfortable with the terminal I eventually fell in love with it. I love Linux so much
I tried linux back in about 2005/2006 and got pissed because I had to drop to a command prop to install EVERYTHING. If you want people to embrace Linux, you need to make it uniform between versions and not require a console command.
So this was my biggest complaint when I started using it too. People will tell you that you don’t need a command prompt, and while they’re technically right,in practice you’re going to need to use it eventually.
I was a windows power user before I got into Linux and of course I ended up needing to spend more and more time in the terminal so the learning curve for me was very frustrating at times.
Fast forward a couple of years and I know bash, I learned more about how computers and operating systems works in those two years than I did in 30ish years before becoming a Linux guy, and while I still think a gui is better for some things, having to use windows at all pisses me off instantly and I feel handicapped without access to a command prompt. I mean, windows has powershell, but I don’t know it. And also the syntax is way more confusing to me than the eldritch syntax of bash (except arrays. Bash arrays are just fucked).
I’m not naive enough to think that everyone is willing or capable of taking the same journey I did, or that you can use Linux to the same extent you can as windows without opening up the terminal, but I am grateful every day I put the time and effort into learning Linux, and I fucking love it.
It's a thin line between love and hate