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Achtung Bitter said:
Not sure if this is the place to ask, but are there any decent text editors for windows, without tabs?
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Notepad comes with windows and is exceptionally lightweight and reliable. One of the few remaining carryovers from xp without any fat.
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The most recent versions of Notepad on Windows 11 now support tabs, spellchecking, and generative AI. Even the most simple programs, Microsoft finds a way to bloat with BS and ruin.
From a little googling, there are a couple projects out there that purport to be drop-in replacements for classic notepad, or only provide the absolute minimum of extra features like syntax highlighting. I haven't used any of them, so I can't recommend them, but they might be worth checking out.
 
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Achtung Bitter said:
Not sure if this is the place to ask, but are there any decent text editors for windows, without tabs?
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A) You should just use tabs, grandpa
B) Notepad++ options allow hiding the tab bar and opening all new files in new instances in the multi-instance mode configuration
 
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I'm likely younger than you, but anyway EditPlus is an example of what I meant.

Thanks.

Edit: I probably wasn't specific enough, but I wanted an editor that can organize opened files without tabs.
 
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TED Notepad is what I use as Notepad alternative, mainly because it has the same resemblance but with the "Stay on Top" feature.

Useful when you have to alt + tab, without the notepad minimizing on you.
 
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MysticMango said:
TED Notepad is what I use as Notepad alternative, mainly because it has the same resemblance but with the "Stay on Top" feature.

Useful when you have to alt + tab, without the notepad minimizing on you.
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Notepad++ also has always on top built in, as well as post-it mode which can be handy when just using it to take notes.

The new Windows Powertoys Always on Top feature is quite handy as a replacement for previous third party tools for marking arbitary windows always on top, although it would be good if they added automation to it.
 
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The new Windows Powertoys Always on Top feature is quite handy as a replacement for previous third party tools for marking arbitary windows always on top, although it would be good if they added automation to it.
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Speaking of Powertoys, I really do like the quick search feature by pressing alt+space! It makes me home when I Switch from KDE Plasma to Windooz Eleven (for work).
 
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A piece of software thats has been a godsend to me is Millennium for Steam. It allows for skin customization on the Steam client ever since they removed it when the new redesign went official. I've gotten pretty tired of the Metro design and all the blue that it has since it looks pretty ugly to me. I've gone around various different themes and I have settled on Minimal Dark for the time being. The last two themes that I used were Classic Steam Library and Zehn. Classic Steam Library, I used mainly out of iconacy and it being snappier due to not having a shit ton of bloat that the current design has but the big bar at the bottom got in the way of scrolling and I eventually thought the design was pretty out dated (Even the 2015 one where some blue was added to it). I switched over to Zehn and liked it because it looked modern but I thought it didn't have a lot going on for it and was pretty basic. Minimal Dark, to me, is very pleasing on the eye and doesn't get in the way like other themes do. You can check out other themes on this page. I also used the Windows 95 skin because of the novelty. It was very well done.


Millennium has also released its plugin functionality after being in development for a bit. This is supposed to give extra functionality. I installed SteamDB because having extra information sounded very nice to me but it wasn't working. I expect that it has some bugs since it only came recently.


This next part is for all my Linux chads out there (Unless you already know this because you've done something like it before). A way to open Steam with Millennium's functionality without having to start it through the terminal is to navigate to the Desktop file for Steam (Usually found in /usr/share/applications) and to edit the "Exec" line to point to Millennium's start script. It should look like "/home/"name"/.millennium/start.sh. Then drag the .desktop file to your taskbar. It should launch Steam with Millennium enabled.
 
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Not software, but hardware: Any audio people can recommend what I should look for in a good headset/headphones and how to make sure it is washable? I used to have a Logitech G30 or something which let me remove the earmuffs and wash them and that was amazing but that is long gone. My current one is starting to fall apart and the earmuffs look unsavoury and they are not removable.

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Some dope ass software that allows skin customization on Steam ever since they removed it when its UI was changed.


I use the Classic Steam Library (For 2013/2015 Steam) and now Steam doesn't lag every fucking second. At least most of the time.
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This looks based, I can make steam as black as I want to match my DE.
 
General Emílio Médici said:
good headset/headphones and how to make sure it is washable
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Use pleather so you can just wipe them off. +1 for Sennheiser but I also have used Audio Technica headphones that have pleather and they're a bit easier to clean. Cheaper headphones are certainly going to have their pads glued on and likely not in a "reusable" fashion as they're meant to be used and binned. As a general rule if the cable can be removed then you can expect the ear pads to be removable.
 
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General Emílio Médici said:
Not software, but hardware: Any audio people can recommend what I should look for in a good headset/headphones and how to make sure it is washable? I used to have a Logitech G30 or something which let me remove the earmuffs and wash them and that was amazing but that is long gone. My current one is starting to fall apart and the earmuffs look unsavoury and they are not removable.



This looks based, I can make steam as black as I want to match my DE.
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+1 Sennheiser. MassDrop has them for a good sale price usually: https://drop.com/buy/massdrop-sennheiser-hd6xx

These "6xx"s are basically Sennheiser 650's for a fraction of the price.

"Hifiman" headphones sound nice and full the one time I tried them. I'm not a huge fan of Audio Technica because they fit my head weird.
 
August Levasseur said:
The most recent versions of Notepad on Windows 11 now support tabs, spellchecking, and generative AI.
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Dis-fucking-gusting, As a linux user, hovewer, im immune to microsoft's bs since all i need is a terminal, echo, and one of these guys: ">>"
(If you aren't terminally online and turbo autistic, lemme explain it to you:
echo prints stuff to the terminal
>> redirects the output of a command to a file, without overwriting the previous data
So what you are doing here is using echo to print something to the terminal, which then immediately gets redirected to a file, hence why you now have whatever you wrote after the ">>" into that file, so echo is a text editor, a incredibly minimalist one, but still fits the definition
example:
echo "Hello world" >> file.txt
echo "print('Hello, world!')" > hello.py -- This here IS valid python code, and it WILL run on a python3 interpreter
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I'm pretty sure that's the simplest and most minimal way to do text editing on linux. And, since you can put any text in echo, you can technichally use it as a code editor aswell, since code is pretty much text formatted in a specific way,
But, on a serious note, is it really necessary to shit it up with AI???? No, seriously, they coulda saved their AI bullshit in office 365, but they just had to shit up notepad.exe. I'm glad i ran to linux when i did
 
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