One of the biggest Windows habits I’ve had to break is using file explorer to open documents and files. This was because memorizing file paths is way faster than using search. Search in Windows has never been good, because it’s always been weighted toward what Microslop wants you to find. And the index goes to shit if a user does something unexpected like saving, moving, or deleting files.
Linux search just works. If I know the file name, there is no reason to open a file explorer at all. Just mash the power key and start typing.
is it ripgrep level of “crazy fast” tho?
Microslop can still fuck off, too little too late.
Only bad management is keeping everything from being crazy fast. No reason for today’s programs to be slower than what we had a decade ago.
I think many programmers and business models have given up on programs running ‘fast’ but rather they just running and shoving them out quickly. Add in all the AI programming, and I don’t see it getting better. It’s basically like most people when they earn more income. The more speed and memory a computer has, the more programmers will use of it.
A computer from the 80’s starts up a million times faster than any modern computer.
That’s nonsense. Every computer I own boots in under a minute. That was unheard of in the 90s, much less the 80s.
Eehhh… this person is wrong about programmers and business models but DOS machines did boot really fast (my 486 boots to DOS in about 20 seconds) and C64s and Apple IIs and such were all ROM based and so booted instantly like a Super Nintendo.
You realize most computers in the 80’s instantly booted right? Flip power switch and they booted to an internal rom. I’m sorry, are you fairly young?
Anecdotes ≠ proof
Here is a 486 taking over three minutes to boot.
The person you replied to countered a broad generalization with an anecdote which probably matches the lived experience of most of us oldies who lived through the time. Your comment did not contribute to the conversation.
well now see, if it had a math coprocessor… blah blah haha
I have done this (or had this done by IT) on every Windows 10/11 machine that I have had to use. There has long been a registry tweak to kill the online search and it really does improve the experience.
Please share the tweak
Cool, now do that five years ago
Cool, now bring back windows 7
Oh, is it fast?.. I doubt it. Still background services sucking up all the ram.
background services sucking up all the ram.
I love how the (mandated) Teams running on the (mandated) win11 work laptop is gobbling A GIGABYTE AND A HALF OF RAM all by itself. What the actual flapping fuck is that?
Teams, like a lot of MS products, uses Edge Webview 2 (an Electron clone). So if you have Teams, and VS Code, and Chrome or Edge running you are running 3 Chromium instances.
If they want to push Bing so hard I wonder why didn’t they just show you the local results first and then asynchronously load Bing suggestions in a separate section. It would make good UX while still promoting their search engine.
Good that it can be disabled though
show you the local results first and then asynchronously load Bing suggestions in a separate section
Actually, that’s fn brilliant.
Maybe the boss wanted the AI results to come first?
;-)
Because then you get no advertising moneyzzzz
“We’ve listened to customer feedback and started puttinf REAL tomatoes into our Shitburger again. People will come flocking back in DROVES!”
That’s like them deliberately closing a strait (for profit), and then reopening it to much glory to their very achievement.
And they didn’t even debloat telemetry, they just turned off the ads.
Also what local search these days isn’t close to instant (which I would say it’s faster than “crazy fast”)?
Are there programs for Windows/Mac or Linux that make search of everything quick and instant? I can’t think of any that don’t involve pre-indexing or massively fail to find what you are looking for (or are slow).
Oh, … I got caught not reading the article, but I assume that goes for Microsoft as well - they do use indexing, right? Have since ever (but in those days you had to manually enable indexing, bcs slow HDDs at the time really bottlenecked)?
By “instant” I meant for indexed content (including installed things, etc). Idk, I don’t search much locally, but if I need a txt file from Documents that how I get it (Linux tho).
Doesn’t Spotlight on Macs work the same-ish or did they enshitify that too?
Edit: The article only says that they turned off Bing results (and added a toggle for the store)? That’s just how Windows users using O&O experienced search this whole time, right?
I don’t immediately see how this is different to eg KDE search functionality (also with added cools that I can do it in desktop, not having to click the search/start before).
Who gives a fuck? If you still use microslop, you are part of the problem.
If you still use microslop, you are part of the problem.
Me getting paid - and therefore eating and paying rent - requires me to use the mandated OS on the company-provided gear. It’s a great job, it has a great union retirement package that won’t leave me destitute like my folks and anyone else who went through abject poverty, and in all I accept that trade-off while working to modernize us out of M$. So maybe moderate that crusade a bit before you enter the workforce?
You are reading a “I condemn you” where there isn’t one into “you are part of the problem”.
If I participate to an economy which exploits third world countries for quality of life and luxury, then even if I do not have a choice, I am part of the problem.
Becoming all defensive about it however suggests that you actually don’t give a fuck about using an operating system operated by a fascist enabling corporation, while looking for excuses that it’s “not your fault”.
It’s nearly ubiquitous in the workplace. A lot of people don’t have much of a choice.
Still, they are part of the problem. Not as big as their corporate IT or responsible manager, but still a part.
I see you are the type to throw the baby out with the bath water
I mean, maybe the baby didn’t understand the movement, so --yeet!–
Skippy is trying to save the world, you know.
That’s nice still never gonna use MicroSlop tools
