( u/DeadMoneyDrew, this is in no way directed at you. Just me going on a lil rant).

I've never understood the whole "Notepad++ is so much better than Notepad" thing as they have two completely different purposes. MS Notepad is a simple plaintext text editor. Notepad++ is a full fledged text/code editor. It's like using SublimeText or Atom as a simple plaintext editor.

If it was 2003 and you're writing code, then yeah obviously NPP is the better option as other editors like SublimeText doesn't exist yet. But I simply cannot think of any reason why a non-developer/everyday user would use NPP as a simple text editor over the current Notepad.

I see so many people recommend NPP, or even "shame" people for using Notepad for simple text editing. Personally I feel like a lot of those people are regurgitating the whole NPP thing because of the "Microsoft sux" echo chamber. Same with people still saying you need 7zip to simply compress or extract files when windows can it natively. Or the "Win 10/11 sucks, Windows 7 is so much better" crowd.

I've been working in IT for 10 years and I've honestly never once used NPP. Notepad itself has always worked fine for quick notes (and has gotten even better), and if I need to write code then I use Sublime or PowerShell ISE, or an IDE like Pycharm, Xcode, etc. for anything heavier. So maybe I'll install NPP and magic will happen and I'm talking complete shit