Notepad isn’t safe from AI.
      • WagnasT@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 months ago

        not OP but yeah, hopefully it works in wine or has a webapp, failing that I look for alternative software that meets my needs. If all else fails I suppose I could use a windows VM until a better solution appears. It’s really going to depend on your specific case and how vendor locked you are.

        • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          How well does a windows vm run in linux? Does it have hardware acceleration?
          Asking because i need something to run photoshop and lightroom, which both need hardware acceleration :/

          • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            It depends on the VM, but some of them have working graphics hardware acceleration. Virtualbox should be relatively easy to set up with modern Windows guests, but isn’t free for commercial use. qemu/kvm is free for all uses, but may require some tinkering to get everything to work. qemu also supports video passthrough—using the VM to drive a second video card installed in your machine—which some gamer types prefer.

            • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Thanks, that doesnt fill me with a lot of hope, but thats why i have dual boot set up with linux (mint) as main os. Ill try wine regarfless before going to windows though

          • WagnasT@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            nyan answered your question, I just want to add that older photoshop allegedly runs well in wine and for me personally i’ve had a lot of success with photopea although I’m a terrible example because I don’t do much with it.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            1 month ago

            It can be run in wine, but you can’t install it from the cc app and there’s no hardware acceleration, so it’s kind of a pig.

            Honestly, if you’re stuck with windows anyway, you’re probably better off with linux in the VM or just using WSL.

            • DacoTaco@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 month ago

              True, i was using w10 + wsl until this week. With my new pc i want to switch to linux full time as i did with my laptop. Photoshop and lightroom are the only apps i have issues with atm ( office will follow… ) and dont want to go back to windows full time for them alone. Hence the dual boot in case i need them :p

              • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                1 month ago

                I find Google docs to be sufficient for most office, But I don’t go too far into the weeds and Excel, It would probably be pretty easy have use cases where Google wouldn’t cut it for you.

                The free open source office alternatives are serviceable, you could get your work done on them but they’re disappointing in some tasks.

                The new Outlook app is indistinguishable from their electron app. They both suck but they’re equal.

                But I provision hardware for my job so I have windows boxes sitting around if I need them.

          • Balder@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 months ago

            I don’t have experience with it, but I’m sure it’s possible to pass the GPU control to the VM, I don’t know how well this sort of thing works.

            I think in general, VMWare is the best at working for Windows images.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        My solution is to not run that app.

        The only Windows-only stuff I have run in the last 15+ years of using Linux are games, and then I just pick one that works out of the box on Steam for Linux. The transition period was rough, but now I just don’t even consider what Windows-only software exists and stick to Linux software, and I’ve solved every problem I’ve had so far.

        If you really need something, either WINE or a VM works. I actually have a separate drive on my desktop with Windows installed, but I haven’t needed to boot up Windows in years. But it’s there if I absolutely need it.

      • LANIK2000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Personally haven’t encountered anything that didn’t run on wine or proton. I know shit like Adobe and some multi-player live service games are intentionally made to NOT run on Linux, but I couldn’t care less. If I wanted to burn money for the hell of it, I’d spend it on something fun.

      • metaStatic@kbin.earth
        1·
        1 month ago

        I still have a 2nd drive with windows on it for davinci because things don’t quite work right in the linux version.

        I’m using Bottles for the 1 game I play seriously and it was the only thing keeping windows as my daily driver. it’s been almost a month without booting into windows now.

        The real secret is to dual boot and don’t inconvenience yourself. Nothing will turn you off linux more than having limited time to do something specific and needing to spend it all compiling something that just fucking works out of the box on windows.

        Use the right tool for the right job and eventually you’ll realize how bad a tool windows has actually become.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          1 month ago

          yeah i used to have a ubuntu dual boot machine for years. i just only use it for the program i need, web browsing etc is on the phone anymore

          thanks

  • Tux@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    47·
    2 months ago

    Oh nice! Micro$oft is now making every their tool into AI crapware and enshittifying it.

    Keep going M$! You’re the best advertsiter to Linux! 👍 👍 👍

  • Lila_UrarakaEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Just use KDE’s Kate, it’s so much better in every way

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        KWrite hasn’t been released by KDE on the Windows app store, Kate has. Using the app store means seamless updates in the background.

        Maybe KWrite is available on winget which would make it a bit less inconvenient than manually downloading each update.

        Edit: KWrite isn’t available on winget

        C:\> winget search kwrite

        No package found matching input criteria.

      • Lila_UrarakaEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        For coders, yes, but for writing down a quick note or something is nice

    • Eagle0110@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Love Kate on Linux, but is it just me that Kate on Windows is extremely slow to open compares to literally everything, even Sublime? My system has i7-12800HX and everything is installed on gen 4 NVMe SSDs so specs shouldn’t be an issue.

  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 months ago

    Why doesn’t MS do what Apple does with Writing Tools. Put it Rewrite at the OS level so that anything with text can access the feature? Doing this an app at a time is odd.

    • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      Because Windows doesn’t support OS-wide text formatting/manipulation like macOS does.

      The system already existed in macOS so it was easy enough to plug writing tools into it, but to do the same in Windows would mean completely rewriting how Windows handles text display and editing (and no doubt causing an avalanche of compatibility issues with old apps).

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Microsoft is in conflict with itself if web apps, modern native apps, or classic native apps are the future. That’s why even different Microsoft applications feel as or even more disconnected from each other than using KDE applications under Gnome.

  • Zink@programming.devEnglish
    18·
    2 months ago

    Is nothing sacred?

    At least that’s one use case that Linux will always be awesome for - editing plain text without added bullshit (excepting any keyboard shortcuts you need to learn to save or exit, depending on your editor, lol).

    And you can obviously do that on windows with any number of third party apps. But not having the basic clean text editor included in the base OS install just seems wrong.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      1 month ago

      And most Linux distributions have a simple text editor shipped with their desktop environment (i.e. Kate or GNOME Text Editor).

      I use vim, but there are simpler editors if you want something CLI, like nano or pico.

      • Zink@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Yep, I’ll typically use vim or nano for editing existing files, but when in just want to make a quick temporary note or fiddle with some plain text it’s the graphical one that came with the DE.

  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I will only use this if it uses Clippy’s animations.

    Thats… what this is, right?

    Clippy 3.0?

  • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
    8·
    1 month ago

    I seem to recall back in (the rose tinted synthpop) 90’s that Notepad was an example of Visual Basic… or at least we created it on a training course…

    So, I’m surprised that anyone’s done anything with it.

    It’s probably gone from a 12kB .exe to a 2GB file with another 10GB of .dlls

  • stupidcasey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    1 month ago

    No! Fucj you! I should have known the minute Microsoft started making you log in to use notepad windows was dead but this is unacceptable, note pad has exactly one purpose, to be as simple as possible. If I want Ai I will use any of a thousand other programs but keep my notepad sacred!

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    When I have to boot into Win11, I run this right after as a shortcut from my desktop (right-click and Run As Administrator):

    net stop usosvc
sc config usosvc start=disabled
net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start=disabled

    … be sure to set your Wifi points as metered to block Update as well.

    Note that anytime you go into certain Settings / Control Panel pages, Win11 silently re-enables the above services! Crazy. (Someone should really write a patch for that…)

    Sad anyone has to put up with this BS but, we do what we gotta do.

    • infeeeee@lemm.eeEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      Those are update services. Upgrading your os is a basic security measure nowadays. You recommend to sacrifice some security because of a minor inconvenience. It’s alright if you can live with that tradeoff, but please don’t recommend it on the internet. Windows assumes a user is not knowledgeable enough about this topic, so it’s enabled for them.

      Other hint, because it seems you are also not very knowledgeable about this topic, usually you can disable these things with group policies if you really want to, so you don’t have to run it after each boot. Or you can also set up a scheduled task or create a service with nssm.

      • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        Yes, I know they are update services; fair point you make, that those not technically-minded should probably leave them on.

        However I personally do not appreciate OS updates, no matter their purported criticality, being installed without my express permission. I am aware of Group policies, but Win11 Home does not officially support them (though one can install gpedit.msc manually; however according to sources I researched, not all policies set will even be honoured by the Home edition).

        I did consider scheduling it, just hadn’t gotten around to trying it out.

        If could, I would wipe Win11 and use native Linux but this laptop is too new and support is poor on it; it’s gone as soon as practical :)