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[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For whatever reasony work tools on Linux aren't working right now, so I am using win10 for the moment.

The start menu is a fucking nightmare. I don't care about what's on the internet when I am looking for my software. This isn't a mobile phone.

What's even worse is that I know what the name of my software is. But half the time, when I use the start menu, the web results and ads load first and it takes a while to show my software, if it ever shows up at all.

[–] Gumus@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I highly recommend Powertoys Run (powered by Wox) with the Everything plugin. It brings a Spotlight-like search with lightning fast search and many features like calculator, running commands and others. I almost never use the start menu nowadays. And all of this is available through Chocolatey.

Also there's plenty other nifty tools you get as a part of Powertoys (I couldn't live without Fancy Zones).

https://lifehacker.com/how-to-set-up-microsofts-new-spotlight-esque-powertoy-i-1843566673

[–] lorez@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I love Everything. Cannot recommend it enough.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I will look into that. I installed chocolatey and I really appreciate a package manager in windows. Gives me a bit of familarity

[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's just my age, but I use File Explorer to find things on my PC.

But Windows loves to not show you things, and the main folder(C:) just seems to get worse and more cluttered with folders with a name like: 4783DDBMJUD84WWIOT.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the thing is that the start menu used to be useful. So the habit is there. Even in Linux, this is the same.

But now in windows, it's a pile of crap riddled with ads.

[–] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even when Win95 came out, I was so used to 3.1 navigation and the MSDOS prompt, the Start menu just never had any appeal to me.

Hell, I even right-click to shut down or restart.

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I started using computers at windows 95, so to me the start menu was always there.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Install Classic Shell. It lets you change the windows UI to go back to the old Windows 7 UI (or earlier.)

[–] lemmyingly@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Let's not live in the past. Just disable internet searching from the start menu.

I agree, it shouldn't have been built in and on by default and it should be easier to disable.

Personally I think Win10 start was peak Windows start because it was the most customizable.