I said show me the true terminal!
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Of course! Call to action button is missing, should be a green, vibrating "PURCHASE" button
The one thing I REALLY enjoy about the start menu kind of doubling as a Bing search is I can type in unit conversions and it'll do them then and there without busting out a calc or opening a web browser. All other cases are like this where it's annoying nonsense.
I'd expect a serious OS to have this by default, without internet. gnome-calculator can take in typed input for any conversion - volume, weight, currency; without an internet connection, right on the calculator screen.
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Just Install Linux
Win+R, wt, Enter
OR
Win-X, I
The start menu has sucked for a long time, but you don't have to use it. I cringe when I see other IT folks using its search feature to launch common apps.
At least they are improving the app list with a nice category view and removing the All Apps button (still in preview). That'll at least upgrade it from hot garbage to okayish.
You cringe, when you see other IT folks use it, but it's literally what it was built for and how it works on Linux to this day. (And even in a well managed corporate environment it works 80+% of the time)
And it's not like what you wrote works for any other application.
Funnily enough I started using the Win+Shift+Ctrl+Alt-shortcuts for OneNote, Excel and Word unironically as of late, because the start menu got sooo slow.
Right?! I love the people giving 'help' on how to launch the terminal in other ways, lol, but, this was the worst of them.
This isn't OOP saying "OMG! For terminal specifically, Windows is making it so difficult for me! Please, someone, show me another way to get to the terminal! Bonus points if you can be a jerk while doing so!" It's them saying "Windows start menu search is fucking broke as hell and here is an example"
Saying that people are 'cringe' for expecting the search to work isn't helpful at all (people giving tips on other ways to get to programs though, yeah, that can be helpful to try and help others work around MS breaking basic functionality). This is functionality that has been in Windows since Windows 7 and has been in every OS with a GUI that I've used for a really long time ... expecting it to work isn't absurd in the least.
Can't we all just join together in our disappointment/hatred of the Start Menu Search functionality and the enshittification of the OS in general rather than having to try and make it into a "I'm so much better than you because I do this in a power user way"? Especially when that power user way isn't even useful for a lot of applications!
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I get more frustrated at how many people, especially IT folks, don't get that these anti-features are configurable.
5 minutes (at most) in regedit and/or Group Policy to disable this bullshit entirely? No, let's add a three second mental hitch where I have to recall the magic key combo every time I want to open the program. And still leave the problem in place for everything else.
I have installed Open-Shell on the win11 system I cannot avoid (Thanks for nothing ASUS for your total lack of effort in supporting standards on your laptops, BTW. Keyboard? Nah, we'll make its USB descriptors totally different just for the lulz. Sound? Intel HD, but why make it work with standard Linux drivers?).
https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu/
It's really good and makes the system feel like Win7 at its height in this respect.