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nobody seems to understand what i mean when i say "i wish linux had wordpad". they're all like "libreoffice came with your distro" and "oh it's so much better than wordpad" WRONG. Wordpad loads with the windows shell and starts up without delay. it doesnt bother separating documents into pages. it scrolls 1 line at a time instead of 5 which is hella annoying. i don't WANT something "better", i WANT wordpad.
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yes sometimes wordpad is annoying, like if you don't change fonts to 13pt Fira Sans it discards all your font hinting and squashes the last 5 words together to fit on one line. but ive been using wordpad since 2011 and ive learnt all the workarounds and work-withs.
what, i gotta run wordpad.exe on Wine? come on. do better.
not exactly the same, but abiword is much more lightweight than libreoffice!
that's interesting because i was just about to come on here and say "and that wordpad workalike is called abiword" but you beat me to it lol
Funnily enough I never liked WordPad. Like, or I need a pure text editor (Notepad) or I want a full blown office suite (LibreOffice). However, searching here for alternatives, I've found Ted. It seems to not be mantained anymore, and its dependencies may not be available in the newest distributions. Maybe it would work without hassle packaging into a Flatpak: https://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/editors/ted/
sometimes linux users really need to consider what they use might not be what other people want to use, but i hope you found a better alternative! (i just use Kate, but thats more so a pure text editor)
i use abiword