Having switched to linux, np++ is one of the programs I miss the most.
Inb4 ‘just use [insert software here] instead’; yes I know alternatives to np++ exist.
Notepad++ and Don Ho: A story of software, activism, and defiance
Submitted 1 month ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.xda-developers.com/story-notepad-plus-plus/
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witty_username@feddit.nl 1 month ago
nya@ani.social 1 month ago
Yep same here. I’ve tried Notepad Next, Notepadqq, and notepad++ with wine. Each had their own quirks/issues (no dark mode, crashes, GUI glicthes). Now I’m just using vscodium for everything. While vscodium isn’t as simple as np++, (there are a lot of extra features you’ll never need when editing a simple txt) it gets the job done without any issues
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m in the same boat. I ended up giving up on the Linux options and using a Notepad++ snap package, but as it runs in WINE it has some quirks that I have not figured out yet.
As an example I chose to hide the menu bar while I was trying to get a dark theme looking correct, and now I have no idea how to bring the menu bar back, because wine takes the [alt] input that would usually bring the menu back up.
I’ll probably end up just deleting and reinstalling the snap. But I’d rather know how to bring up the alt menu in emulated programs in wine - in case it happens again.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 1 month ago
Used to be alt+space. But I haven’t used wine in a while…
tehsYs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Wow, never thought I could like notepad++ even more…
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Don Ho is a stand up guy! Notepad++ is also a great piece of software.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Notepad++ is still the second thing I install after
ChromeFirefoxwhatever the fuck i’m gonna use nowCoffeeBreakfast@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
LibreWolf ( librewolf.net )
renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 1 month ago
It’s by far my favorite text editor on Windows. The first time I used it (I think to edit cfg files for Skyrim mods, lol), I was hooked. It’s great to know it’s creator is so principled.
halfpipe@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
This is awesome, as is the number of people over in the XDA comments all finding a way to get angry at software they’ve never used.
SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 1 month ago
XDA is asking for disabling my adblocker? WTF? I guess i won’t be reading the article.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 month ago
Firefox + ublock Origin on my phone. No issues.
capybara@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What browser and adblocker?
SavageCoconut@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Vivaldi, no adblocker, it seems it has one integrated… maybe?
sh3llcmdr@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I didn’t know some of that. I’ve even more respect for Don and what he’s doing!
emiellr@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Interesting piece. Thanks for sharing 🙏
hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Hopely he doesn’t put the political messaging into the software.
Quazatron@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everything you do or don’t do is a political statement. Do you think you can somehow exist in a bubble where politics is something that happens to someone else? How naive.
Machinist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you read the article? If you have a problem with the political messages he is adding to the releases, you’ve probably been brainwashed by a government or a political party. He’s not saying anything controversial, mostly just “Hey y’all, genocide bad.”
dantheclamman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Here to cheerfully crush your hopes and say he does!
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
He did. A notable update for Notepad++ compulsory had a support message for Charlie Hebdo. Its his right to do so, and he’s not wrong.
Machinist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just a note on the efficacy of activist messages in FOSS.
In the Aughts, I was learning to play with microcontrollers. PIC microcontrollers were free as well as the JAL language. I ordered a hardware programmer from the Dutch guy who created JAL: Wouter van Ooijen. Probably my first purchase online. There was a statement in the license, to the effect of, the language could not be used to develop arms.
Looking back, that was a turning point for me. I was machining arms for a living and continued to do so for years. It got me to thinking about what it was that I was producing with my hands. Weapons for killing people.
I thought about it a lot. All these things I was making with blood and sweat being used to kill people. Running machines on night shift gives you time to think.
His statement was, at minimum, at least partially responsible for me changing my mind. I grew past the bad religion and far right ideology that I was taught.
I’m going to send him a thank you note.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I’m just an internet stranger, but I’m proud of your growth. Many people in similar positions would’ve spent those years digging themselves deeper, because confronting the cognitive dissonance is not easy (you may well have spent some of that time digging deeper, but you made it out, and I’m glad you’re here with us)
Machinist@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I dug into ‘Creation Science’ for a while as a result of the cognitive dissonance. Trying to square reason and science with religion and belief in an inerrant Bible. Ultimately, I lost my religion and had an existential crisis that lasted about a year.
It was terrible. Panic attacks and circular thinking. An existential crisis is depression’s cousin. Painful, frightening, and eventually exciting. I’m free now. I got rid of the slavery that was pushed into me as a child. Still have to fight the guilt and bad thought patterns.
I was not successful in bringing any friends or family with me from before. I tried. I have regrets, but would do it again.
MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not an easy thing to change about oneself. Good job and thanks for sharing 👏