This is why I have a custom shell on my work PC. This is the kind of shit search interface where the local hits pop up quickly after you typed but then jump away to display irrelevant guff like this just as you’re clicking on what you wanted.

My main gripe with this travesty of a “Start menu” is that it isn’t the Tom Hanks movie of a similar name.

The other is that even if it were, it won’t just play, but rather send you to the shiniest new subscription service to subscribe.

Had to use a W11 machine last week and this was one of the 1st things that annoyed the shit out of me. On W10 you start typing an app name and press enter and it opens. What the fuck are they at changing that. And don’t get me started on Outlook or Windows explorer.

Fuck you Microsoft. I’m going to Linux as soon as possible

Winaero tweaker and open shell will do wonders if you have to use Windows 11

Adding websearch to the start bar’s search was solving a problem that didn’t exist. If I want to search the web, I can use a web browser to do it. I feel like it was added to try to make up for how bad the search used to be (and still is? I just never really had a habit of using it because it was so unreliable and depended on other ways to figure out where things were), so that it would give something, plus MS really wanted bing to be a thing.

I recently switched to KDE and their main search bar also includes web search. I haven’t looked at the settings for it and expect there’s probably a way to disable that, but I didn’t feel great about seeing that there.

or when you speed type something and it just opens edge and searches bing for the app you tried to open

Wait until corporate america figures this out, outrnext big blockbusters: cmd, taskmgr and devmgmt

Open start menu:

Windows: TODAY IS THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF TOAST BREAD!! want to know more?

I keep a small Win11 partition on my 2022 gaming laptop in case I need to take a cert exam or use a gov website, and I booted it for updating for the first time in 6 months. It took over 6 hours and 6 reboots to update! At one point, it was going bu-ding every minute from random notifications so I had to mute it.

Meanwhile, my 2012 Thinkpad T420 needed a full Fedora version upgrade, and that finished in 15 minutes.

No wonder MS is losing users

so much “user friendly”

Best match

Sure thing, bud 😂

It even recognized the local app that matches, how on earth is this a better match

ahem Linux.

Thank you.

Typing in powershell? How a about a bing search of Windows Power Settings? Not even the settings menu, just the fucking eeb search.

at least you get something, on my work computer, i get an empty window when i search

Am I the only person that still types “command” in the search? It’s windows who is typing “terminal”?

Yes I know it’s a terminal, but it’s never been called that AFAIK. It’s always been the command prompt.