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Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by GuB-42 on Sunday January 07, 2024 @07:59PM (#38906955)
It is not just nostalgia. Windows used to have a built-in word processor. Not anymore. If I wanted to write a letter on a Windows computer I was unfamiliar with, I could use WordPad, I knew it was there, like Notepad and the calculator. WordPad is not the best word processor, by far, but it was there.

Now, there is no word processor I know is there. There is that useless trial version of Office 365, or maybe the real one. Or LibreOffice, that I am not very comfortable with. Or one of the webapps like Google Docs, but then I need an account, and internet access (not guaranteed).

Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by xattt on Sunday January 07, 2024 @09:16PM (#38907528)
> LibreOffice, that I am not very comfortable with

You still can gain that comfort.

Re:RIP Microsoft WordPad. You Will Be Missed by eviks on Monday January 08, 2024 @12:57AM (#38908753)
All three apps you mentioned are awful, the fact that they were there doesn't confer a non-nostalgic benefit to mourn their disappearance