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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man fuck Microsoft. Killing a free app and replacing it with a paid app that has a subscription bundled.

What the actual fuck!!?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's word pad though, do you really ever use it? I use notepad for a quick temp fix in a pinch, I haven't used word pad in like 15 years.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly if I need to format, that gets done in the app that I'm going to send whatever text.

Whatever goes into notepad for me will either get deleted, go into notepad++, or whatever app I'm going to send it (office).

Sounds like you could benefit from replacing WordPad with Notepad++.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow really? What for? I've seriously never heard of or seen somebody use it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I need to copy something from instructions out of a doc file, so much faster to open copy and close before word even opens

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I'm not saying use word. Notepad++ or the native sticky notes are both good alternatives for WordPad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fair point, I do use n++ a lot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You... have heard of Microsoft before now, yes?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'll be editing PDFs with standard Mac software that comes with the OS while Windows charges a fee to edit text files.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah but you need to install an app from the apple store if you want to tile your windows on your screen, or turn off mouse scroll acceleration. There's a lot of stuff each has which is missing from the other.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do people using wordpad for anything productive?

There's notepad and if I want anything fancy, either use libreoffuce or MS's online MS Word.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Removed as a protest against the community's support for campaigns to bring about the deaths of members of marginalized groups, and opposition to private entities working to prevent such campaigns, together with it's mindless flaming and downvoting of anyone who disagrees..