I don’t know why I even bother opening the settings app

  • @ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
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    10611 months ago

    It’s actually insane how difficult it can be to find settings in windows. Especially when the indexing breaks for the 1000th time and you can’t just search for it in the start menu.

    • Rentlar
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      7711 months ago

      Hey, maaaaaybe you wanted to search how to do that in Bing!

      -Windows

    • @cyberpunk007@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      This is the start menu experience:

      “Photoshop”

      *Wait 15 seconds *

      “Here are some results from bing:”

      😡😡

      Mac and Linux it’s instant, and not some garbage AI/ads/web search results.

      • @meowMix2525@lemm.ee
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        1011 months ago

        Lol I installed open shell several years ago and have not looked back since. If I wanted to search the web with your shitty search engine, microsoft, I would have opened your shitty browser, now please sit down.

        Probably shouldn’t have installed it on my work computer for security compliance reasons but it’s such an improvement in my workflow that I couldn’t not install it. Highly recommend. Legit cannot imagine using windows without it anymore. https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

      • @ruckblack@sh.itjust.works
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        311 months ago

        I have no idea why it breaks like this so often too. And it’s such a pain in the ass to try to fix that I’ve generally given up on trying. At least when something very rarely happens with the indexer on Linux I know where to look to fix it.

    • @labsin@sh.itjust.works
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      2411 months ago

      Especially when you start typing something and it already started searching with your partial input and you your further and notice the thing your search for is first so you press enter, for it to now place another thing first with the extra input 😡

      How can “displ” open display settings, but “display” opens a help page in Edge

      • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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        411 months ago

        This. You seem to have to give it less. Also it is just broken. I have excel installed, if i start typing excel ( even with app filter) it can’t present it to me, it wants to hand me an ad or info page about what excel is and where to download it from

    • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      611 months ago

      I have a dual boot machine, windows takes forever to find sometging with or without indexing in use. Boot to linux I type 2-3 letters and GNOME/tracker index hands me files instantly. if I mount the NTFS windows partition in Linux and use the aearch in Nautilus it finds files faster than windows.

    • @Psychodelic@lemmy.world
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      210 months ago

      I just install list art on all my computers. I occasionally test the windows search but it fails spectacularly, 9.5 out of 10 times