[catapart]

For anyone still using Windows' notepad app, I strongly recommend Notepad2[0].

It's a drop-in replacement for Notepad that does add a few extra features, but does not have even the minimal suite of features that something like Notepad++ has. Where Notepad++ is great for code editing and extensible functionality via plugins, Notepad2 is more suited for people who just want Notepad, without the Windows/Microsoft. It has line numbers and (limited) syntax highlighting and a dark mode - bits and bobs like that - but it does not have tabs and ftp-on-save and the more complex stuff that requires a larger binary size.

It's free, it works like Notepad, and it acts like a bare bones text editor. In many, many cases, it's exactly what I want, and it's always exactly what I want in cases where my original intention would have been to use Windows' Notepad.

[0] https://notepad2.com/