Kate is a text editor included in the KDE Plasma desktop environment. While KDE Plasma is available for Windows (through the use of a virtual machine or a compatibility layer like Wine),

Kate itself is not a native Windows application.

You can[SQ]t directly download and install Kate on Windows in the same way you would on Linux.

To use an editor similar to Kate on Windows, you[SQ]d need to use a different application, such as :

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Notepad++:

A very popular and powerful free text editor.
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VS Code (Visual Studio Code):

A free and versatile code editor with many extensions.
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Sublime Text:

A powerful, albeit commercial, text editor.
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Atom:

Another free and open-source text editor (development has ended, but it[SQ]s still usable).


If you really want the Kate experience, your best bet is to install a Linux distribution (like Ubuntu or Fedora) on Windows using a virtual machine software like VirtualBox or VMware. Then, Kate will be available within the virtual machine[SQ]s Linux environment.