Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95

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Microsoft is getting rid of WordPad after 28 years – the veteran editor has been present in the OS since Windows 95::Microsoft has begun getting rid of another veteran application in its proprietary operating system. The company has released a new test build of Windows 11

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LibreOffice is also available as a Flatpak:

Outside of that. And keeping in mind WordPad was a standalone rich text editor:

Kate is pretty swell too:

Or slim down to Kwrite:

I myself am also mostly writing in markdown on Obsidian:

Markdown has definitely replaced most of what I used wordpad for. Obsidian is nice, but I’ll also write markdown in vscode or even just vim. It all works and even when it’s not interpreted, it still looks readable. Plus since it’s all just text, easily converted, and widely supported, I don’t have to worry about format deprecation.