Notepadqq is a programmer’s text editor program for Linux. It is an alternative to Notepad++, a very popular Windows text editor among programmer’s community. Notepadqq is available as a snap app on Ubuntu platform currently, and so is Notepad++. So what makes them different? The answer is one of them is actually a Windows binary that runs on top of WINE (Notepad++) and the other is a native Linux program implemented using Qt technology (Notepadqq).