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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by hn-ifs on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:42AM (#45156503)
This is what I use in a VM on my Linux host whenever I need to run something Windows.

I don't game and all my software is cross platform. Windows still has a few things I miss, programs like notepad++ (for which there's no true Linux equivalent), and portable apps (with Linux equivalents not really coming close, but understandably so).

Windows really is a broken OS solely set up for spying on users.

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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by robin_reala on Sunday September 07, 2025 @04:54AM (#45156547)
Notepad++ is seems like it has a pretty high Wine compatibility? https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=applicatio...
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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by GoblinSlayer on Sunday September 07, 2025 @05:24AM (#45156689)
Wine has a very small font in interface. Can something be done with it?
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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by robin_reala on Sunday September 07, 2025 @07:17AM (#45157212)
Not that I’ve used Wine recently, but this seems to be the exact problem and solution? https://askubuntu.com/q/1313791
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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by skydhash on Sunday September 07, 2025 @07:16AM (#45157201)
Notepad++ can only exists on OS like windows (I think macos has bbedit?). By the time people really need all the feature in Notepad++, they’ve already learned Vim or Emacs. And the basic editors in Linux DE are way more useful than Notepad.
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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by tyami94 on Sunday September 07, 2025 @07:13AM (#45157182)
If you like the KDE tools, Kate is a pretty good replacement for Notepad++. It's a very fast native Qt program with a familiar look and feel.
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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by Krutonium on Sunday September 07, 2025 @08:52AM (#45157750)
NotepadNext is a damn near perfect Linux clone of NP++.
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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by GeoAtreides on Sunday September 07, 2025 @01:07PM (#45159993)
>programs like notepad++

Sublime text

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Re:Unofficial Windows 11 requirements bypass tool allows dis... by pprnm on Sunday September 07, 2025 @03:58PM (#45161606)
CudaText is replacement for NP++. Main disadvantage - Spell Checker plugin is much slower. But many advantages.
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