Jason LefkowitzMay 23

What being a Windows user is like in 2025

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/in-3-5-years-notepad-exe-has-gone-from-barely-maintained-to-it-writes-for-you/?comments=1&post=43746095

In 3.5 years, Notepad.exe has gone from “barely maintained” to “it writes for you”

AI features in Windows are gradually becoming more widespread and inescapable.

Ars Technica
Show threadxinit ☕May 23
@jalefkowit I just assumed everyone installed Notepad++ and moved past notepad.exe.
Show threadxinit ☕May 23
@jalefkowit Using notepad.exe on Windows feels like those times when you go to edit something on a *nix system and you're dumped into nano instead of vi.
Show threadarclightMay 23
@xinit @jalefkowit Yes, this.
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@arclight This is how I end up with ":q!" in my crontab

@jalefkowit

Show thread1000millimeterMay 23
@xinit @arclight @jalefkowit Long ago, I tried to send an email with :wq
Show threadbytebroMay 23

@1000millimeter

Thank the deities for vim!

'vi' was such a bastard to learn in the 90s, that I could never be arsed to go through such pain again, so now I use gvim on my Linux machine at home, and my Windows laptop at work, and have evolved a moderately busy .vimrc config file that works for both. That, plus 14yrs of coding in Perl, mean that I am now the in-house regex guru 😂

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