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Basic Notepad vs Sawfish

A side-by-side look at Basic Notepad and Sawfish. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Basic Notepad

Basic Notepad

Office & Productivity

Basic Notepad is a simple text editor for Windows that allows users to open, edit, and save plain text documents. It has basic formatting functions like font and text size changes. Useful for quickly taking notes or writing short documents.

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Sawfish

Sawfish

Os & Utilities

Sawfish is a lightweight and extensible window manager for the X Window System. It implements some innovative features like per-window decorations, configurable policies for window layout and placement, full support for Xinerama multi-head displays, and more.

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