Notepad had been perfect for 20 years. Morons fucked with it.
You probably wouldn’t like 20 year old Notepad’s habit of leaving Unicode BOMs everywhere, or only supporting CRLF line endings. They did improve it a tiny amount circa Windows 10.
Does Windows 11 Notepad still choke on loading large files?
I actually liked some of the addictions to notepad, like tabs, reopen files, keeping unsaved files, and the unsaved changes indicator in the tab.
But I think formatting, grammar and ai are going too far for notepad, if I want to do something that need those I would use Word.
I used notepad for quick edit of simple files OR copy pasting and removing formatting.
Copilot excluded, who decided that it was a good idea to have multi tab notepad that remembers unsaved files between executions ?
"We solved that, just go into settings to toggle that behaviour !"
Who decided that notepad had to have a full settings page ?
"Just use the feedback hub" ?
So basically, you removed Wordpad and now regret this decision and are slowly turning notepad into Jeff Raskins' Archy ?