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nullish_signal
But will they add a "Please Buy Notepad" pop-up, like Sublime Text? I won't switch, otherwise.
abudabi123
Should twenty-eight dollars a two-week period be the base price for a daily professional or leisure tool?
giuliomagnifico
He's lucky that his boss is not Musk and he's still working!
MonkeyClub
If they add line numbers too, then we’re talking!
rightbyte
The lure of notepad.exe and paint.exe was to me that they are simple and don't change.

Bloating them is antithetical to why they are useful.

machinawhite
I just use Notepad++ for notepad.exe but I'm still looking for a good paint.exe. Although I've used Pixelformer recently for some 32bit bitmaps and it's pretty good
rightbyte
Have you tried "Paint.net"?
jblakey
Second that, it's the right mix of paint and gimp for me most of the time.
pongo1231
Same here. It's one of the programs I greatly miss on Linux. :(
jowdones
Well I still use "Paint" for quickly editing images / pictures, in combination with IrfanView. But Notepad is literally unusable compared to Notepad++. If they (M$) copy Notepad++ it's fine with me, one less dependency to install. But I doubt it, too small of a tool in the M$ ecosystem, although I use plain text editing and hence Notepad++ maybe 20-50% of the time spent on Windows.
Aqueous
They really shouldn’t. Notepad doesn’t need to be anything other than what it is.