Web in the search, AI in the search, personal assistant in your files, things in your things that you don't want, didn't ask for and are struggling to extract.

I wouldn't mind that as an optional function, having a single global search field that brings up whatever you are looking for seems really convenient on paper.

Of course not the way msoft does it, where you never get the thing you want unless you are being really precise (like searching for appdata only yielding web results until you specifically type %APPDATA%).

LOL just another way to mine data and extract value from you, rather than providing it.

Meanwhile the entire Internet :
https://example.com/Laura/Epsom

Tfw windows uses forward slashes too. Now let's talk about how *nix is case sensitive because laziness.

But all fall short of God's glory that is Temple OS.

(Idiots)... Way to roast normal people. Don't know if they will ever recover. The best bit was putting it in brackets.

You are normal people.

I've spent ways less time editing the windows registry than I've spent trying to fix all the dual monitor bugs with linux.

Windows issues/changes are a 30 second google search away, linux issues often enough require a 1 hour deep dive into multiple forums.

You sound like an (idiot); you as an individual are not defined by your OS of preference of all things, and by all means, you are one of the normals.

Both OS are hard if you don't know how to use them.

Both OS are easy if you know how to use them.

Linux's problem is fragmentation. There's not a single OS that many people are familiar with like Windows. Instead there's hundreds of different distros that all function in a variety of different ways. Even if a person learns to do something on Mint or Ubuntu, they will be completely lost trying to do the same thing on Fedora or Arch.

Definitely this. I have been eyeballing Linux for years, always intimidated by the CLI and the notion that everything you try to do on Linux requires user research and work first.

Now I finally made the switch a couple days ago, and while it took a bit of tinkering and googling here and there I am amazed how simple, even way simpler than on windows, the experience for a an average user is, particularly with the very beginner friendly distro I went with (bazzite/gnome).

It just works right out the box for 90% of whatever I want to do, configuring it is simply flipping some switches in the software and extension apps. Feels more like setting up a new smartphone than a PC. I didn't even have to mess with the CLI all that much, perhaps half a dozen times so far, and each time i followed specific steps in a guide or tutorial, or tried out some basic things like file search.

Problem is is that is that too many people insist on doing things the Windows way and they get frustrated because of it. For example, instead of going to the software center, they choose to download their programs from a website, even though that's not how you're supposed to do it most of the time. They'll also spend hours trying to get Windows only programs to run, when there are alternatives available that work just as well.

What if I told you I'd rather bash my skull in than use powershell.

Bro I think you got too many package managers in your setup. Prob this is gonna cause conflicts.

Not always.

In other news, I feel old.

Well, sure, but this has a user hostile motive behind it.

Microsoft could have offered a right-click/disable internet search to facilitate. However, they wanted people to just give up and soak in start-menu driven internet action, so they buried the option in an obscure registry key.

The key is the start menu search to internet really makes the experience suck, as you try to type something on local system and some internet result gets prioritized, and by nature of the internet search, the internet search is unpredictable, so the search you do every day that usually opens up what you expect suddenly starts going to some internet site in edge.

In this case, I'd say it's less about how the registry works, and more about how deliberately obnoxious Microsoft makes the experience for the sake of their agenda.

Sure if you have to deal with the registry at all, it's "hard" but that's casting stones from a glass house as dconf can be just as hard, and then you have the odd occasion where someone suggests dbus-send, which certainly doesn't have room to mock registry handling as hard. The point is that most people never have to touch dconf/dbus directly to do what they want, and in Microsoft some things are deliberately obscure due to user hostile intentions.

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