What do people use instead of Notepad?

[Labster]

Minor update on choosing between LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org: Get the hell off Apache OpenOffice, it’s insecure and not worked on any more. LibreOffice is better in literally every way.
TL;DR version is

1. open a .docx file someone emailed you.
   
2. OO.o says "oh, this is actually an $OBSCURE_FORMAT file"
   
3. bug in that format gives full access to your computer (user-level anyway, but local escalation exploits are common).
   

 They have known about this since May and have done nothing to fix it.
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