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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish8•2 years agoYes, I would say notepad would be the bigger loss. But wordpad is still the default for people before they learn about things like notepad++
minus-squaresloonarklinkfedilinkEnglish7•2 years agoNotepad is the default text editor on Windows. I’d be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 years agoInterestingly enough I have seen a lot of new PCs that have Wordpad as default (mostly dells and some HPs).
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 years agoI have seen that too and the first thing you do is change it to notepad as wordpad isn’t good for text files
You’re thinking of Notepad I think
Yes, I would say notepad would be the bigger loss. But wordpad is still the default for people before they learn about things like notepad++
Notepad is the default text editor on Windows. I’d be surprised if most people even knew WordPad existed.
Interestingly enough I have seen a lot of new PCs that have Wordpad as default (mostly dells and some HPs).
I have seen that too and the first thing you do is change it to notepad as wordpad isn’t good for text files