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Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol) (lemmy.ml)

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[–] Peffse@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I know you are asking for FOSS alternatives, but for those who are looking to just restore the old programs:

https://win7games.com/

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[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

Reasons I keep old installer-ISOs, tbh

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://windows96.net/

It even has a Textpad

There is also an satire version, Windows 93, but Windows 96 is a functional online version from the descarted M$ Nashville project before they released Windows 98. Anyway good for pranking your friends, putting it fullscreen.

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