Your summary captures a widely shared concern among longtime Notepad users: that Microsoft's recent changes risk undermining Notepad's core appeal—its instant launch, minimalism, and reliability as a pure text editor.
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The Value of Simplicity: Notepad is treasured...
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If you’ve spent any length of time navigating files and folders in Windows 11, you’re likely familiar with the ongoing debate around File Explorer’s evolution. Microsoft’s flagship file management utility has, over the years, seen incremental feature upgrades—there’s the much-requested tab-based...
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