Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11
LibreOffice is a good solution for anything one would use Office or WordPad for. Works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS.
Libre Office is a good replacement for Office/Word, but it is much heavier than WordPad.
It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).
Likely feels that way because it has to load the Java runtime before launching.
I believe, it only loads a Java runtime for the JDBC database driver in LibreOffice Base. At least, you can tell it in the settings to not use a Java runtime and that seems to not affect the remaining functionality…
Tbh I don’t use Windows or libre office so I’m just guessing. Back in the day I just know it took what felt like forever to load initially (and my pc fans took flight each time) but so did MS office 🤷
It even feels heavier than Office on windows (on linux it feels much better).
LibreOffice is also available as a Flatpak:
Outside of that. And keeping in mind WordPad was a standalone rich text editor:
Kate is pretty swell too:
Or slim down to Kwrite:
I myself am also mostly writing in
markdown
on Obsidian:Markdown has definitely replaced most of what I used wordpad for. Obsidian is nice, but I’ll also write markdown in vscode or even just vim. It all works and even when it’s not interpreted, it still looks readable. Plus since it’s all just text, easily converted, and widely supported, I don’t have to worry about format deprecation.
It’s “aight”
Seems kinda sad. I doubt it’s a program many people use (or even know of) these days, but there is an odd charm to super simple rich text editors like WordPad and TextEdit in macOS.
I suppose AbiWord sorta fills that niche as a replacement.
Anyone remember Microsoft Office’s weird cousin, Works?
Forgot Works ever existed! That takes me back. So glad they killed that mess.
I’m trying to use AbiWord when possible, but since it supports DOCX, I use it for DOCX, and a heavy DOCX file opened in AbiWord means lots of CPU usage all the time it’s opened, while LibreOffice doesn’t have that problem.
Maybe Ted fits more as a WordPad replacement.
I use textedit in plain text mode daily
Notepad++ 👍
It was “Write” before Win95.
So the next Windows won’t come with any text editor unless you pay extra for Word?
It’ll have notepad
Notepad with AI, so you can continue to not use Notepad, but with AI.
There’s still notepad, but Windows 11 office suite is already subscription only. They’re only taking wordpad out so people who don’t know better are pushed to buy in to the racket.
Nope. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/get-started-with-office-2021
$250 USD for the core apps.
If these fuckers touch notepad I’ll riot.
Actually that’s not true, I’ll just be quietly annoyed.
Just use notepad++?
Now what program on windows is going to be indestructible?
Anything intended to serve ads or invade your privacy.
Oh well, Windows has become that one OS I use for one or two things that I complain every time I have to spin up my VM to use.
I only use it to play games, mainly a heavily modded Skyrim. It’s just too much of a pain in the ass to get MO2 to launch the Linux version of Steam so that I can use Proton to launch SKSE. I finally managed to get it to work once and was getting at 15 FPS on my RTX 3070.
Didn’t Windows for Workgroups (3.12) also have WordPad? I remember something that was more complex than Notepad being released with pre-95 Windows.
3.11 (not 3.12, which was never a thing) apparently came with Microsoft Write.
Here’s the summary for the wikipedia article you mentioned in your comment:
Microsoft Write is a basic word processor included with Windows 1. 0 and later, until Windows NT 3. 51. Throughout its lifespan it was minimally updated, and is comparable to early versions of MacWrite. Early versions of Write only work with Write Document (.
Reject modern GUI text editors, embrace Vim
<ESC> :q!
Markdown is superior anyway 😂