Fortunately this has already been patched but still, what a fuckup
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Jesus fucking christ so the fucking idiots really full on dont even try to test any of the shit they facefuck into 1.4 billion innocent pc's with every update they release.
they let Copilot run tests and it all passed, no worries
Once you go Notepad++ you never come back
Woohoo! We're gonna party like it's 1992.
Or I could just use the same version of notepad++ I've been using for idk how many years.
Fuck microslop and they lack of testing on anything they push out.
So why did the get rid of Wordpad?
Word pad had too many features, people could use that instead of word.
Looks like shit
And take even longer to launch than it already does. No thanks. A text editor should be a simple text editor. If I wanted anything more complex, I'd use LaTeX.
Personally, I restore the classic Paint, Notepad and Snipping Tool from Windows 10 on my Windows 11 machines because they launch instantly and don't have AI slop baked into them. You can uninstall the "new" versions of these apps that come with Windows 11 or leave them and have both. I personally uninstall them.
I even set up these "classic" apps to be my defaults where the "new" versions were before. Everything works perfectly.
For those interested, I wrote a guide on how to do this manually yourself: https://pastebin.com/1WAs38AP
The fact you need a guide to get a working Notepad and Paint back says everything about the state of Windows 11 and Microsoft.
The innovation powerhouse ladies and gentleman 🤣 bravo ms (slow-clap...)
This would be nice if they hadn't also included AI slop into it.
Wait, this is old news.
I wish TextEdit supported markdown 🥹
A headline and some bulletpoints, wow.
Wake me up if it supports pretty code syntax highlighting (like Dillinger), internal linking (like Silverbullet or Obsidian), tagging, table of contents for headlines and a proper advanced search for content.
It doesn't even need to have the advanced stuff like graphs, content embedding, scripting and theming.
frankly I think that even the markdown support is too much for notepad. it's supposed to be a raw text editor, why does it need new features? It was a finished product already