![]() ![]() Gnome's is fairly close to ideal, though it forgets launch history too quickly (if I type "calc" and select LibreOffice's Calc just _once_ it'll start showing that first, instead of Calculator which I want 95% of the time when typing "calc"). Unity's gets confused and breaks too often. It'll just pull up a window I already have open (no way to change that behavior without weird hacks). Mac's Spotlight gets everything right, except it won't open a new window if I type, say, "firefox". Windows 7 is close, but doesn't include any fancy results (can't have it do quick math, etc). It's weird that there are no great "magic search" tools on any desktop environment I've used. though still just as bewildering as to why it's happening in the first place. Comforting to know everyone is having similar problems. I felt like I was going crazy or something. But if I accidentally finished and typed "remove" the result would disappear. I'd type "remov" and it would show the menu item for uninstalling applications. I kept having issues using the Windows menu search in Windows 10. ![]() Now everything is starting to make sense. See, I thought Cortana was Microsoft's name for their voice assistant on Windows 10 or something. When I type "notepad" I want it to launch Notepad, not query the web!ĭoes anyone think that Cortana is an improvement? How did it even get launched in this state? If I want a web search I'll do it in Chrome's address bar. I never want to perform a web search from the Windows start menu. I cannot even begin to count how many times I've tried to search for an application by name that I know is installed, only for it not to be found, then have to manually navigate in Windows Explorer to Program Files (or Program Files x86, damn you Microsoft) and launch it by double-clicking on the executable itself, which was named exactly what I thought it was and yet Cortana couldn't find it. It's worse than the old-school "simple string match on installed applications and files on disk" in every way, yet has somehow supplanted it?! I wish there were some easy way to completely uninstall this frustrating garbage in Windows 10 and go back to the simple interface that just worked. Every single interaction I've ever had with Cortana has been complete garbage. ![]()
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