Use Everything! search for Windows. Literally one of the strongest points of NTFS is lightning fast indexing, using tools like Everything and WizTree. The only things I miss on Linux. Oh also AutoHotKey.
I just set the Everything window to appear on ALT+3 (I have found this to be a very useful shortcut because it’s rarely used by anything else and is easy to reach quickly)(some function keys also work well for it), you just type, it highlights, you press enter, you’re done. And so many sorting options.
… Ok, Computer.
-.-
cmd+space iTe-
enter
That’ll do for now, I reckon.
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
Best match
Sure thing, bud 😂
It even recognized the local app that matches, how on earth is this a better match
It’s all relative. Best match for their user analytics. So they get good numbers to show user engagement in their board meetings.
Accidental clicks are engineered to juice those numbers too.
One pays MS per click.
Only $9.95 for the first hour, then $39.99 thereafter.
Powertoys and that debloating scripts does wonders to make w11 usable.
Problem that powertoys are becoming bloated too. Before switching my 8gb RAM laptop to Linux, it was constantly swapping memory. I investigated and it was powertoys slowly eating everything. The two almost identical launchers, 300mb each. The eyedropper that you gonna use once a month 200mb, the help that comes out when you long press the windows key, another 80mb. Same for the screen ruler. Then the accent helper, and so on. My 8gb laptop only had 1 GB free Memory After a clean boot
AFAIK there was a memory leak in PowerToys. But it’s definitely ballooned in scope since it was first released. I suppose turning off the parts you don’t need would help but it really should still be more efficient. Doesn’t help that the Microsoft Department of AI Department seems to have started sinking its teeth into it as of the last few updates.
Isn’t that the entire point of swap? If you’re only gonna access that memory once a month what’s wrong with it swapping to disk but becoming ready within seconds when you go to use it?
Dude, Windows swaps like it’s its job.
The job of swap is to be used after the RAM is full or is about to be full. It’s not to be used instead of the RAM.
I bet SSDs were a huge freaking performance boost for Windows generally speaking because of the way it swaps.
Yes but when it’s too much… The poor SSD in my 8gb laptop was constantly at 65°C because of all the activity. And it seems without reason. I would hear the warning sounds from crystaldiskinfo when “idle” in another room
Lol, I remember power toys from freaking tucows.com (it used to be a software repository of sorts) in the nineties.
Windows and power toys, two relics from the ICQ age.
the ICQ age
There’s a blast from the past. Uh oh!
Man, I think I still had an active Fark account more recently than I visited tucows but I remember it.
Typing in powershell? How a about a bing search of Windows Power Settings? Not even the settings menu, just the fucking eeb search.
Types power
Windows search:
And I bet you it pulled the right Terminal as you typed “term” but as you finish it, it pulls this bullshit.
Is there a word for “a thoughtless action by someone else so incidentally awful that you can’t help but wonder if it’s intentional”?
I mean, I don’t think they’re intentionally engineering it to delay EXACTLY the amount of time it takes for me to begin the process of clicking. That would take thoughtfulness, strategy, research, etc…… right?
…right?
The Germans have a word for that, I think they call it Microsoft…
This happens on (mobile) websites all the time. It is infuriating.
@mod_pp They can’t even suggest the better (Tom Hanks) Terminal movie.
2025? I don’t remember the search in the start menu working correctly since windows 8
Is this true? Can’t be true
I believe you can disable the dumb search providers.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Windows search sucks balls and does stupid stuff like this all the time. Even when it’s not a web search it might open some file named terminal and not the program terminal. It does that to me all the time at work.
It has for a decade, since Windows 10 basically.
Afaik PowerToys has this Spotlight ripoff which searches for apps.
It’s based on an older version of Vox:
Yeah I don’t know why people who call going on the internet without using uBlock rawdogging use windows without running some script to gut all of this trash.
Not even a good film.
Not even a good Terminal film.
Is Terminal even a Windows app or alias for cmd.exe/PowerShell? I know the joke is how bad the start “menu” is, but maybe they could’ve searched for a real app?
I’m not a Windows user, I’m asking genuinely.
Windows Terminal is one of the only good things Microsoft has done in ages.
Windows Terminal is the terminal emulator that hosts the shell (cmd or PowerShell, or anything else really). It’s the modern replacement for “conhost”.
It’s also a fantastic app, some of the devs are on Mastodon too.
i honestly wish they ported it to linux
Windows terminal is actually decent
