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It's probably not reasonable to expect this to improve in 2026. (media.piefed.world)
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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The Windows start menu is completely useless now. I know they pushed using the search to find apps, but I never used it that way except as a last resort.

I've been on Mint for just over a year, now. I'll never go back.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

By find apps, do you mean the ones I installed already or ones in their marketplace or whatever?

Because I've never been able to have it find my own god damn programs that I installed locally and fully given up on ever using the start menu.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

How does it not work? My Win11 start menu is flawless, start typing receive app, no ads.

[–] Carrot@lemmy.today 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is shocking to me. I've got a success rate of maybe 20%, the other times it will search the web for something, list a top option that's completely unrelated to my search while the app with the the exact same name as the term I searched is right below it. Granted that second one is fine-ish, but I'm used to Linux where muscle memory gas me pressing enter as soon as I've typed what I want, and if I do that on windows it starts the wrong app.

[–] laurelraven@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago

Just throwing this out there, you can turn off web search in the windows search bar... I believe it requires editing local group policy or registry, but it's an easy tweak that you shouldn't have to do again

It should not require this, but for those of us stuck on Windows, full or part time, doing that does make using it marginally more tolerable

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Try running MMC…

[–] treesapx@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

I despise that it defaults to a web search if it can't find what I'm looking for, which is most often a very real setting that I know exists...