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Comment by baal80spam | Hacker News Reader

Beautiful.

For comparison: In Windows 11, Notepad's size, referring to the disk space it occupies, is approximately 25.1 MB according to the Microsoft Store.

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For comparison, the size of this HTML page + CSS is larger than MARS.EXE was.

That seems inevitable, given the webpage contains an assembly listing of MARS.EXE. Mnemonics are larger than machine code.

I meant the source of this page, including the transparent pixel image and the logo.

How did it get that big? On my Windows 10, notepad.exe is 196 kB, I remembered it being under 100 kB, but it did get a few more features in the last years. Anyways, hard to judge considering that a good part of the original Notepad is likely to be standard Win32 components.

Anyways, none of these "mainsteam" apps hold a candle to sizecoding productions. Just look like what comes out of Lovebyte, a demoparty where no production is above 1 kB.

I think they moved it to .net, made it a store app, dark mode and copilot ai.

Win11 notepad has multiple tabs and previous session saving, which is nice. But it also has a bunch of other crap such as copilot integration and it's logged into your Microsoft account.

Microsoft recently added both Copilot integration and rich text formatting (!) options to stock Win11 Notepad. Fortunately, they can be turned off for now.

I do like that the rich text support allows converting to/from Markdown, but I still prefer plaintext mode.

I thought copilot integration was sarcasm.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/enhance-your-wri...

Until now, I thought the underlined-bold-red text in official announcements was the worst thing Microsoft bring into humans culture, but it seems there's something even bigger coming.

It's insidious. Mercedes Benz is doing Copilot integration!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44583520

So Notepad quickly went from decades of not having the most basic features, like support for UNIX like endings and files larger than a few kBs, to a 25 MB monstrosity...

As if they tried to avoid the sweet spot the best they could.

For anyone interested and I don't see this advice posted anywhere enough, you can uninstall the bloated Win11 notepad version from settings -> apps and Notepad will revert back to the plain text version we all know and love (which now stands at 352kb).

One of the lucky 10000 on this one I guess. Thanks!

WTF? On Windows 7 it was 189 KB

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