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@lemmy.ca 79 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

-Windows

[–] lseif@sopuli.xyz 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

nope, they definitely wanted an AI answer.

[–] prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

AI answer: Type the setting into the start menu search bar. The first result will be the setting you're looking for.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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 11 points 10 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 2 points 10 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 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 4 points 10 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 6 points 10 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.

[–] words_number@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago

Hahaha yees! The start menu search is hilarious!! You install a software, type in the exact bame of the software afterwards and the start menu search gives you the installer from your download folder instead of the installed program with the exact name you typed. The devs must have a lot of fun there. This is peak satire.

[–] Psychodelic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 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