Are they serious?

Alan Kilborn

Windows 11 Pro just prompted me with:

Is this a serious question???

Where’s the choice for 0 or even negative numbers??

mkupper

@Alan-Kilborn If you uninstall the Notepad app then it gets replaced with regular Microsoft Notepad. My current copy says

     364544  11/14/2023 10:25 PM  C:\WINDOWS\system32\notepad.EXE

That shows that Windows Updates still seems to know about it. When I run it then Help / About has a generic Windows 11 version message.

Alan Kilborn

@mkupper said in Are they serious?:

If you uninstall the Notepad app then it gets replaced with regular Microsoft Notepad

OK, but I’m not sure why I’d want to do this.
The “new” Windows notepad is fine (for what it is).
The only time I’ve missed the “old” one is when I wanted to see what its Find window looked like, to do a comparison with some aspect of Notepad++'s Find.
Searching the internet for images to accomplish that was a bit annoying, but not enough to make me want to hack my Windows.

Michael Vincent

@Alan-Kilborn

Can you vote “++” the Notepad app?

mkupper

@Alan-Kilborn said in Are they serious?:

OK, but I’m not sure why I’d want to do this.
The “new” Windows notepad is fine (for what it is).

I uninstall nearly all “apps” from my machines. With the old .exe application model they would sit on your disk and do absolutely nothing until you started an application. Your only cost is disk storage space.

“Apps” were first created for the smartphone world which uses low speed, low power CPUs. To compensate for the low speed all apps are loaded when a phone is powered up and they run continuously in the background. This gives apps the appearance of starting quickly when you activate one. The app model migrated to desktops for several reasons.

Microsoft realized they could become the sole owner of the “store” and thus can have full control, and to collect fees, from developers and users. They get to track, and sell information about, what apps people have on their machines, how often they get used, amount of time using them, etc.
App developers came to realize that because the apps are running continuously that they could do all sorts of tracking and data gathering in the background. The business model became gathering information about the users and selling it.

The cost to users to run “apps” is disk space, RAM, CPU time, network/Internet traffic, and loss of privacy. There’s an additional cost in that “apps” tend to get updated continuously meaning more disk/RAM/CPU/network consumed dealing with updates plus the aggravation of needing to continuously re-learn how to use the app.

Happily, Notepad++ remains an “application.” Your only cost is about 20mb of disk storage though starting with v8.6 it’s 21.7mb of disk space.

If you uninstall Microsoft’s Notepad “app” then plain old Notepad.exe will cost you 356 kb.

donho

@Alan-Kilborn said in Are they serious?:

Windows 11 Pro just prompted me with:

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Is this a serious question???

I prefer this survey. It looks much more realistic:
https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1755331040892104990

donho

I prefer this survey. It looks much more realistic:
https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1755331040892104990

Or this one:
https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1615140863696420865

donho

@donho said in Are they serious?:

I prefer this survey. It looks much more realistic:
https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1755331040892104990
Or this one:
https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1615140863696420865

Or even this one:
https://twitter.com/Notepad_plus/status/1452432451150696453

Lycan Thrope

@donho ,
Things that make you go, Hmmmmmm?!?
:-)

mkupper

Welcome to the AI driven future…

Are there web sites that will translate plain human languages into AI speak or Aiglish?