Terminal > Windows Registry.
Web search on the start menu.
🤮
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.
things in your things that you don’t want, didn’t ask for and are struggling to extract.
We have a word for these. It’s called “parasites.”
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%).
Also if I could pick my search engine rather than getting one of the shittiest ones rammed down my throat
Luckily on KDE plasma this is just a GUI setting.
For about a year or two, windows had an amazing search from the menu that used a blazing fast index search to search files, directories, and file contents locally and almost instantaneously. It was a glorious thing.
I cannot think of a case in which a user would not need to distinguish between web search and file search (other than the convenience of a single click). I do use a unified search on my phone that includes files, apps, and contacts, and if it’s not in any of those, it will launch a web search using the query. That is more than adequate. If it were performing the web search in real time, I wouldn’t be able to easily access apps and contacts, and the results would slow and change while typing.
Its even worse than that. It is completely unpredictable and just does what it want. When I type in “Vi”, the first choice is Visual Studio. It will stay on Visual Studio until I have typed in “Visual Studi”. But if I’m a fast typer, and I type in the entirety of “Visual Studio”, it opens Visual Studio Code.
So the fastest way to open up Code is to type “VSC”. This doesn’t work with “VS” for Visual Studio.
I have to type out “Spot” specifically to open Spotify. Typing out Spotify opens edge.
There are also files and programs it cannot find despite having been installed for years, even though I’ve MANUALLY added the paths to the searched directories.
If anyone of you is on Windows for whatever reason and want your mind blown, try downloading a little program called Everything. It can literally find every single program on your computer as fast as you can type. And it looks up exactly what you type in. It also supports wildcard characters etc. This is the kind of behavior I expect from my computer. Sure, make a shiny frontend for casual users who don’t need to see every single file on their system, but please, why do I have to go through third parties to get this experience on an OS that my company paid for, when I can get the same experience out of the box on any free Linux distro?
I honestly thought I was the only one that has those problems. I think the thing that gets me is when you install a program, the installer closes, you don’t know where in gods name it just installed to, so you type the name of the program and windows is like “sorry never heard of it”, so you go to the programs list and it’s right there.
What you mentioned is particularly frustrating because I too will type full program names and it often switches on the very last letter. It’s even more frustrating that the user can’t manipulate the search by typing a few letters, realizing those letters are shared by two programs, and then typing a few more letters to lead it to your program without moving to the mouse. Instead it acts like you’ve added no info and recommends the same thing.
Also if you go to uninstall a program by right clicking it in start or search and instead of uninstalling it presents you with a list of programs which you then have to go find the program again in and then hit uninstall again. Been that way for 8 years now.
LOL just another way to mine data and extract value from you, rather than providing it.
math in start menu is also powered by bing.
Start menu 🤮
You mean easily accessible shortcut folder?
What is wrong with that?
Candy Crush and Ad-ridden Solitaire
Normal people (idiots) would rather spend 4 years of their overall life “hacking” with Windows to avoid 30 minutes learning to use a forward slash.
Meanwhile the entire Internet :
https://example.com/Laura/EpsomLaura Epsom? Is that Lorem Ipsum for the barbaric tribes of Britannia?
Specifically these Britons. https://youtu.be/F33HokcX8M0?si=EfpM3X0PxsnmkQnS
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/F33HokcX8M0?si=EfpM3X0PxsnmkQnS
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
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.
I won’t have the perfect OS until I’ve rewritten Temple OS from scratch as Hannah Montana’s Temple, The 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.
Ready, normal people?
I’m ready, Trekkie Monster!
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.
It… Depends… Also, you picked the wrong platform to argue against Linux on 😅
The fact that you have to say it depends and wait for clarification of which exact flavor of Linux version and problem it is is just chef’s kiss
Ah yes, no counter arguments here, only patting on the back while everyone takes turns looking down on a different group of people.
Have you googled Windows issues? Every problem apparently is fixed by running chkdsk or download a “driver updater”. And it wasn’t exactly good in the past either.
If you don’t know what to search, how to word it, or where to look instead of clicking the first link with “[SOLUTION]” then maybe you shouldn’t be troubleshooting…
I do technical support (mainly Windows but some Linux) and fully agree; most people just want to project for one reason or another. My main concern is privacy and bloat, but those are easy enough to address on either platform.
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.
yeah, and most people dont even know linux exists
thats like calling a kid dumb for not understanding how multiplication works when they havent yet learned it in school
I mean it’s probably a similar amount of time and effort trying to fix Windows than it is learning to use Linux.
I once spent several hours at work trying to mount a USB drive to red hat. I’ll keep fighting windows for now.
I spent many years trying to fix Windows before moving…
Just got tired of fixing the same bullshit over and over in this cat and mouse game trying to gain control of my computer.
“Holy Hannah!” That’s great
“Montana Banana!” also an acceptable exclamation
To be fair, comparing terminal to the registry is not comparing apples to apples. The registry is more like a complicated config file full of barely documented options. Still miserable to work in, but that’s beside the point.
The terminal equivalent to windows is Powershell which id say is much more favorable.
Pay no attention to gconf, dconf, GSettings, or whatever else there is.
Literally a KDE setting. In the GUI.
And nobody needs that, otherwise there would be a plasmoid.
One thing Linux needs to do is change the perception of how hard everything is compared to Windows. Some things are extremely less difficult on Linux.
Using Linux isn’t hard. Switching to Linux is hard.
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.
That’s absolutely true. I made the same mistakes and I got absolutely mad.
I still don’t fully know how to install rpm files lmao, that’s how I learned about Apt back on linux mint, don’t remember what I was trying to install as it was like 15 years ago. Deb files were nice because they did work like a windows user would expect.
I don’t even know what rpm files are xD. I personally havent figured out how to make use of a tar.gz file.
A tar file is similar to a ZIP file. The easiest way to uncompress them is by using your file manager and right clicking.
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.
hundreds of different distros
And out of those “hundreds” only a handful of them are actually popular and progressing innovation…
As someone who’s distro hopped across a wide verity of distros, the fundamentals are more less the same across all of them. Just go with a popular distro with good documentation and you’ll be fine. If you’ve learned enough from mint to feel comfortable tackling Arch Linux, then the documention (e.g. ArchWiki) will be your strongest asset.
Good documentation is great to have. Here’s the thing though. If you need documentation to use an OS… That just proves that it really is harder for people to use.
Mint and Windows both share the ability to pick it up and use it for the majority of what most people do. Arch is like the textbook example of having to learn a bunch in order to use Linux.
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.
That’s even more complicated than half the stuff normal users on Linux do
I have been using Linux for more than 15 years and would consider myself a semi-advanced user, but that thing in the screenshot - it scares me.
It is nothing but opening regedit, going to the path described in the text, and adding a variable with a certain name and value.
It can even be done by a single powershell command line.
I’m starting to think Linux users like yourself aren’t as technologically capable as you guys claim you are.
Spread the word! Linux is easy to use and for everyone!
- A linux mint user
Why do that when you can just use a GUI?
KDE plasma 6 has a GUI setting for the equivalent feature.Registry editor is a gui tho
A terrible one that’s basically a weird file browser for binary data and crap.
Ha nerds Imagine using the terminal!
Wait. Wait. Nevermind
(Me rn)
You’re not using a command line web browser? I wouldn’t either.
Voidtools “Everything” is how we mimic a fraction of your power thank-you-very-much.
I was actually just looking for this the other day. I’ll let you know if it actually works.
LiNuX uSeR iNsTaLlInG A BrOwSeR haha
yeah uh…
sudo apt install firefoxsudo xbps-install firefoxsudo pacman -Syu firefoxnix-env -iA firefox
sudo pacman -S firefoxis also enough. -Syu is for updating.Ahahahah imagine writing a short story to install a browser
its four words
Could be three. Just make your only account the root user.
Make it two:
emerge firefox(Gentoo users only)emerge
Yeah, totally.
Just imagine trying to do this with Windows Powershell, without a package manager like chocolatey to make it simple like linux…
$workdir = "c:\installer\" If (Test-Path -Path $workdir -PathType Container) { Write-Host "$workdir already exists" -ForegroundColor Red} ELSE { New-Item -Path $workdir -ItemType directory } $source = "https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest&os=win64&lang=en-US" $destination = "$workdir\firefox.exe" if (Get-Command 'Invoke-Webrequest') { Invoke-WebRequest $source -OutFile $destination } else { $WebClient = New-Object System.Net.WebClient $webclient.DownloadFile($source, $destination) } Start-Process -FilePath "$workdir\firefox.exe" -ArgumentList "/S" Start-Sleep -s 35 rm -Force $workdir/firefox*
You think you’re powerful? now try to enable bing results in Linux search
What if I told you you can create and set a registry entry with a single line of powershell
What if I told you I’d rather bash my skull in than use powershell.
