Notepad++, as the name suggests for me, was actually the next editor I learned how to use after Windows Notepad. I saw all this pretty syntax highlighting, and the ability to use tabs, and I decided to use it.
I got pretty good with it, even making custom macros and the like, and as I was learning C and C++ on Windows it was still the text editor I used.
The reason I stopped using it really did just come down to the fact that it didn't work on Linux. I had already been dual-booting Windows by 2011, and when Windows 8 got announced I utterly hated it so much that I decided to just do Linux full-time. While I was aware that Notepad++ worked on Wine, I didn't really want to muck with anything emulator or emulator-adjacent, so I just picked up Emacs and Vim (went back and forth for multiple years until finally settling on Vim).
I will need to look at NotepadNext. NeoVim is great, but sometimes I want a simple, non-IDE, GUI text editor as a place to just dump notes down.
For reasons I don't really understand, I've never liked any of the GUI versions of Vim.
I use Vim for coding and even writing Markdown docs, the thing I like using GUI text editors for a place to dump copy/paste stuff, writing down phone numbers real quick, quick stuff I can click and copy-paste from. The console version of Vim is fine, but getting stuff to and from the system copy buffer is a bit cumbersome.
I got pretty good with it, even making custom macros and the like, and as I was learning C and C++ on Windows it was still the text editor I used.
The reason I stopped using it really did just come down to the fact that it didn't work on Linux. I had already been dual-booting Windows by 2011, and when Windows 8 got announced I utterly hated it so much that I decided to just do Linux full-time. While I was aware that Notepad++ worked on Wine, I didn't really want to muck with anything emulator or emulator-adjacent, so I just picked up Emacs and Vim (went back and forth for multiple years until finally settling on Vim).
I will need to look at NotepadNext. NeoVim is great, but sometimes I want a simple, non-IDE, GUI text editor as a place to just dump notes down.