Gregory's Server🪦 Microsoft is discontinuing WordPad after almost 30 years. They recommend using Microsoft Word for rich text and Windows Notepad for plain text, but you can also explore our complete list of alternatives: https://alternativeto.net/news/2023/9/microsoft-has-finally-announced-the-end-of-the-road-for-wordpad-a-windows-staple-since-1995/
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@fosserytech @alternativeto LibreOffice is amazing, my go to office suite on Linux (after Neovim) and Windows.  @fwam @fosserytech nah. #LibreOffice works fine. a) stop with the tags, it's unnecessary and nonlegible b) LibreOffice struggles even with ODT lmao @fwam @fosserytech @kkarhan @fwam even if the problems are caused by MS Word or .docx files, they are the standard, so a FOSS solution has to neatly slot in to work as a viable replacement. If I send documents to someone and it looks messed up on their machine because I used LibreOffice and MS Word couldn't handle it, it's just gonna look like I messed up. (there are solutions to this - sending as a pdf - and I never had that many issues personally) @fwam what's the problem with OpenDocument formats? The shitty OpenDocument compatibility of MS Office? @TurnrDev @alternativeto LibreOffice is free (both in cost and in being able to access/contribute/share), runs on every OS, and can work offline with local files. And other options are available that also share those advantages that GDocs doesn't. @tobleh @alternativeto sure! That's true! Depends how frequently you need it and how much you care about the privacy of what you're writing. I, myself, rarely use any office products so I just use GDocs.  @TurnrDev @alternativeto If "every OS" is chrome, chrome, chrome and chrome. Please don't spread misinformation. @ellenor2000 @alternativeto Google Docs can run inside the browser. It runs on Firefox, Chrome and Safari. It has native apps on Android and iOS. Every modern OS that can access the internet can access it. If you can provide an OS that can't, I'll eat my hat. @alternativeto I'd recommend #AbiWord instead of #WordPad: It's a simple, sleek and efficient #WYSIWYG #Editor for #printable #text and works on basically everything, without any subscriptions and offline. @alternativeto I've been using Notepad++ for about 13 years now - never went back to Microsoft Notepad. Microsoft Word substitutes: - Trapping your fingers with the front door of your home   @alternativeto “Hey ! You can use just use World™️ which you can buy for 159$ instead of using our free discontinued WordPad“ Thanks Microsoft. @alternativeto Everyone keeps saying 'after 28 years', but wordpad is essentially a continuation of 'MS Write' (it even sits as write.exe these days), which has been a staple of windows since v1.0 in 1985 I'm not going to panic too much though, because it's not like MS are reaching into my win10 and removing it, if they remove it it'll be from win12 onwards, and I'll probably switch to 100% linux desktop before using win12 @alternativeto Since working full time Ive wondered why Wordpad existed, it solved nothing. guess MS did the same. |
@alternativeto that is crazy, I had to use them during exams at school, last few years XD darn Microsoft cutting the good things they made.