Submitted 1 year ago by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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For my “convenience” and because in this way they can show ads and clickbait
Also: I SET A FUCKING GROUP POLICY THAT DISABLES THE SEARCH BAR; WHY THEY FUCKING IGNORE IT???
So that’s what happened. Thought I just mashed buttons weirdly at some point and caused it.
Windows: You will use Bing. Resistance is futile.
Is it hard to get two monitors running on Arch w/ i3wm? I can’t really read another bullshit thing about microsoft again and thats all I am worried about for the switch.
I haven’t used i3 but I’d be surprised if it was that hard since it works out of the box on Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, and xfce in my experience.
Thank you, I don’t know if it will but I’ll try.
Hey, I used to use that before switching to sway a few years ago. It isn’t hard at all: There is not a single line in my config concerned with monitors, it just works by default.
Yes. Easy as (if not easier than) Windows, I’d argue.
I’d like to thank you all for your responses and for shifting my fear into inspiration.
No
Why is Arch with i3wm the only alternative to Windows? There are many other distros and desktop environments.
I am not saying that. Thats what my laptop and uploaded config on github is for is all.
I’ve moved to Arch like a month ago, first installed i3, I think you’ll only need xrandr and setup some hooks that set/reset xrandr on the screen plug/unplug, if you ALWAYS have two screens plugged in, you can execute xrandr on X startup and that’s all about it
Was pretty easy to setup in Manjaro a year ago. Can’t say how it is now, I’m using hyprland now.
Manjaro is pretty fire and forget now. It’s what I’m running currently. The install is fully guided and newbie friendly.
If you hate Windows so much why are you still using it? At some point I can’t be sympathetic to those shooting themselves in the foot.
Personally, as much as these little things annoy me, the big things just work. Games just work. My hardware just works. Updates just work. Software just works. I never, ever, ever have to open fucking terminal. That alone is worth all the bullshit in the world. I got into an argument the other day with someone who was chastising a Linux user for updating their distro without checking dependencies first. Like doing homework before an update is a normal thing everyone should be expected to do. It’s not, and until Linux figures this shit out, it’s going to stay niche in the consumer space.
Just to be perfectly clear, I am rooting for Linux to succeed. I think our best chance at this stage is Valve. I suspect the use of immutable SteamOS will begin to creep into the desktop space. Developers will love it because they can build exactly one repo and call it a day. Users will love it because shit will “just work.” Yes, we lose some control, but no one will care because the biggest flaws will be gone.
I suspect the use of immutable SteamOS will begin to creep into the desktop space. Developers will love it because they can build exactly one repo and call it a day.
Fedora Silverblue does this. It’s a cool experience where you primarily use flatpaks, or containers for legacy / dev work, it would work great on a phone.
You can also fork the OS and customize the base installation and share it from a container registry. It would be awesome from the “I am my family’s IT support person” perspective.
I’m waiting for that day to switch as well
You think I check for dependencies when I update? I just click a button that says update on my Nobara distro. Idk what you think Linux users do that is so much more difficult than Windows. All of my apps except for Tresorit was a click to download. This is easier than Windows’s “search for website, click download, run .setup, get the program”.
Some software unfortunately requires it. Yes, Wine/Proton exists, but it doesn’t fix everything.
I know some do, but no one needs everything to work.
This has to be satire, no (most) corporate organisation that isn’t tech builds their applications for Linux first.
Actually, I use the search bar a lot to find programs
Press start key, type. Faster than clicking on a search box.
Yeah that’s what I do. Wait what are you guys talking about? Is the search box a different thing? I can disable that and still use the searching feature?
imagine enabling windows search
Back when it did its job of SEARCHING YOUR COMPUTER, IF I WANT AN INTERNET SEARCH ILL USE THE FUCKING INTERNET, ahem, it was actually a useful feature
Find programs to download using bing?
Everything I type on the search bar on Windows 10 gives priority on bing and never local, even if I type regedit.exe
I deleted bing using osm& and it removed functionality of searching for files. It’s unfortunate that they implemented it this way. I’m going to see if I can block requests in firewall.
Why all my window machines use ltsc fucking “feature” updates
It is asking for your permission if I understand the post.
In my case it said something like “you apparently don’t know how great our search bar is, so we reactivated it. You can disable it again if you want to”
yes but it’s opt-in instead of opt-out. If i click on the desktop it’s dismissed and the search bar setting is reverted to their preferred setting. If really needed, should have been the opposite like “did you know that you missed out on the latest spambar? Click here to make the change permanent”
Ok. So it still wasn’t forced?
It’s the equivalent of asking “Would you like to cancel? Are you SURE you’d like to cancel? Are you REALLY sure? Take a look at our new features and make sure you’d actually like to not cancel. You said yes - so you’d like to not cancel? Okay!”
An extremely forceful and dishonest way to keep people on the feature. Should require just one No to permanently keep it off.
You didn’t read that pop-up above the search bar asking if it should stay disabled or not?
It had literally the buttons “enable” and “stay disabled”.
Almost like Windows caters to the average user, who might have disabled the search bar accidentally and doesn’t know how to turn it back on …
main issue is that it’s “i changed the setting and this is your only chance to cancel it”, dismissing this will agree to the change
OP doesn’t read Italian /s
There are ways to make the search bar useful
This comment requires more detail. As far as I can tell the search bar is only useful for typing “cmd” and getting a command prompt window. I’m pretty sure that’s all I ever use it for…
Windows search sucks balls so hard it boggles the mind how it can suck so bad. It’s like they created the search bar for Windows XP and haven’t updated it since. How can a company with so many smart people create something that shitty and never fix it?
So anyway, if I’m missing the toggle for “make windows search not suck”, please fill me in.
Yea I’ll install something and try to search for it a week later just to open it faster and Bing is like “oh here’s some tasty breakfast places near you” then provide restaurants near North Korea.
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just redirect it to another browser. Then you can use it like a search engine.
Yes, the only way to make it useful is disabling it and use a complete replacement like keypirinha (Foss but abandoned) or powertoys run (Foss but looks like no contribution allowed and 100% controlled by Microsoft)
I literally cannot comprehend how you can use windows without the search bar. Its a total clusterfuck otherwise imo.
If you hit start and type, it has the same function
This is what I do since windows 8.1
Thats how i use it too. Is there anything more to it ?
it’s a useless duplicate that takes useful screen estate. You can open the start menu, and if you start typing, the search bar appears. It doesn’t need to waste 20% of the taskbar for that
But anyway, the search is broken. It gives priority to web searches, so if you want to search “libreoffice”, to open “libreoffice writer”, it suggests “libreoffice download” which is pointless. I replaced it with “powertoys run” and now i get useful results.
some people don't know that, and it isn't made obvious, so having it by default on is great i think... but, enabling it at random for no reason? that's ridiculous
Aaah i see what you mean even though i dont really care about taskbar real estate off with its head.
Even if you hide the search bar, you can hit the windows key and start typing your search query. The search bar doesn’t have to constantly take up screen real estate in the taskbar.
Hence why I always hide it on my systems.
Yeah didn’t know that the function you are describing is the exact way i use it
Whether I want to open a document I open once a week, or a program that I use every day, the search takes a minimum of 10 seconds to turn out a result, after first consulting its server for Firefox websites. It is useless beyond useless.
Idk about docs and stuff but for apps the win button-appname-return sequence is pretty much a matter of 1-2 seconds for me
Why not use win 10 ameliorated, no updates enabled
because big words scare me!
Lmao nice
If you’re okay with Windows 10, why not LTSC? No feature updates but you do get security updates for an extended lifecycle.
I honestly don’t see a difference, and haven’t seen a difference in the past 4 years going between ameliorated windows and LTSC.
The only reason I still use Windows is because of VR, I heavily invest my time in VRchat. Other than that, arch is my daily driver.
Windows without updates = exploit found tomorrow = ransomware installed next week
I’m sorry, do you seriously take me for an idiot? How disingenuous.
Hahaha!
Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Got the same message this morning. At least in the message is a button to roll back the unvoluntary change.