After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad

Peak enshittification.

...must...resist...cheeky Linux comment

Sensationalized garbage. It's not going to be paywalled. Only the AI features are.

SaaS - Shit as a Service.

Welp, looks like Notepad++ will be getting a ton of new installs.

I am so glad I left Windows.

Uhm WTF

I'm fairly anti-AI, but I can't imagine the use case for AI rewrite in Notepad. Word I can at least can see it, but Notepad?

to be sure

https://notepad-plus-plus.org/

I refuse to believe this is reality.

Imagine if this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Notepad goes subscription, and the world finally snaps.

Oh no they didn't

Sadly sets a precedent, even if they are putting their AI features behind the paywall.

That being said, the daily reminder that Notepad ++ and LibreOffice are better anyways, and if you want to get Linux most versions have Gedit at the beginning.

I just shrank my partition but Im just gonna delete it and fully swap to linux, idc if I run into isues anymore, I always got a usb to restart and 90% of what I do is online

Not that I'm using 11, but my response would be: Notepad? No thank you, I've got Notepad++. The plus mean it's better, and it's got two of them so you know it's really good shit.

And so, Windows as a subscription service begins. [typo]