HexesofVexes

I already use geany as my main DE! It’s got a lot of great features, but it’s not really a notepad app.

Never heard of it, so now I will take a look. Thanks for sharing.

Notepad++ is, at its heart, a text editor.

It’s lightweight, can run portably, and has some oddly specific but useful features such as dual window linked scrolling, syntax highlighting, and even allows regex for search/replace which is neat.

You can use it for coding (I use it for short python scripts), but that isn’t it’s main use.

VScode is, primarily, an IDE - not really something you use as a plain text editor.

For those who want to stick with Windows, Notepad++ is far superior anyway.

Oddly enough, Notepad++ doesn’t really have a full featured native Linux alternative (as of my last deep search around June 2025).