> When I stopped using Windows, it was because it required so much constant upkeep and maintenance to stay usable.

i actually had to spin up a windows vm last week to fix some dumb excel workbook vba nonsense a coworker was having issues with.

i laughed so hard at the amount of "debloat" powershell tools out there for windows that are basically a non-negotiable now to have a normal operating system experience. just surfing around the web and seeing people say "yeah install OS then run _ tool" like that is a normal "this is fine" thing was so entertaining.

i destroyed that VM when i was done. then took a shower

Based on the timelines, it seems like the WordPad EoL was going on at the same time as the plans to add crap to Notepad. They might well have killed WordPad so that they could turn Notepad into the pile of crap it became.

lol holy moly i totally forgot about how annoying it was when something opened in the bastard child that was wordpad.

kinda crazy to me how terrible the entire windows experience is as a whole, i really think people have just lost sight of how computing should be.

there's just too many cats outta the bag here that microsoft is going to cling to for dear life, they can back pedal all they want in blogs promising different, but we can already see here they're not willing to let go of the stuff they've woven into things that people hate.

im gonna be blunt, windows kinda sux. this is already not a promising outlook for windows enjoyers. and it's only been what, like 2-3 weeks since they were putting out this nonsense

> "You will see us be more intentional about how and where Copilot integrates across Windows, focusing on experiences that are genuinely useful and well‑crafted. As part of this, we are reducing unnecessary Copilot entry points, starting with apps like Snipping Tool, Photos, Widgets and Notepad."

let me guess: copilot stuff remains on by default. lol, lmao even

With Apple, can you leave the LLM features turned off?

It was never replaced. Paint 3D was an entirely different app for 3D art only. It's also been gone for a few years now.

I think that crown belongs to the pile of pig shit that was the Windows 10 photo viewer. My first experience with that trash fire was opening a simple 2k photo which took 15 seconds and 150 MB of memory on a six core i5 with 16GB RAM. Viewing images was pain and suffering until I gave up and re-enabled the Win 7 viewer which was thankfully still included.

Ugh, I can no longer press win key and type "p a i enter". I now have to find the old paint manually.

Must be some Mandela effect but I'm sure that Paint.net was supposed to replace mspaint when it was started.

I remember how Skype, an awesome piece of software transformed into Lync, which worked fairly well, slowly transformed into whatever MS wanted to call it year after year, slower and more buggy than the year before.

This stretches back much farther than the 2020s unfortunately...