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I've used it for a long while, from windows 8 to last summer on windows 10. Works great. After a warning that classicshell was discontinued I finally decided l
by nolok 8y ago
I've used it for a long while, from windows 8 to last summer on windows 10. Works great.
After a warning that classicshell was discontinued I finally decided last summer to make the switch and use the windows 10 menu; remove the full app list always appearing, remove all the "magic tiles", put small sized tiles for my app grouped by categories and using the stack system (several tiles in one).
Works decently (well enough that I can fit all I want in a single menu view, no need to scroll), and at least it's supported by windows so I don't risk losing it randomly some day.
My major remaining issue is how broken the search is, open start menu, start to type and it searches but I have no idea what kind of broken search algorithm can possibly gives such terrible results, perfect match are sometimes not shown, things that barely match fill the top of the list ... I know alternative exists but I don't see why I would need that here, it's just sad. I disabled all the web search features that made things even worse.
The modern windows 10 start menu can be made usable again, but it really feels like a case of you guys needs to go back to the basics instead of trying to fix the fix of the fix of what doesn't work. Throw it away, start again.
- GordonS 8y agoI actually quite like the Windows 10 start menu, at least after removing all the default tiles for games and what-not and replacing them with things I actually use. Totally with you on the broken search functionality though - it didn't work in Windows 7, and it still doesn't work. I literally have no idea how such a core feature of the world's most popular desktop OS can be so horribly broken for so long... but it is!
- majewsky 8y ago> at least it's supported by windows so I don't risk losing it randomly some day. Hah, good one!
- nolok 8y agoEh, I mean the core things aren't removed often. Previous menu did hold from 95 to 2012 (windows 8), so it's rather long lived. And the new worst one they came up with is still there now 7 years later. Can't really call it "unreliable" when they change it once in more than 20 years, in computer time that's eternity.
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- tvanantwerp 8y agoIn my experience administering an office full of Windows 10 PCs, I wouldn't call any part of that system reliable. Every major update seems to change something in unpredictable ways. Using Enterprise helps a lot, but it's still a pain.
- soup10 8y agowindows 10 search is straight broken, tries to give me web results most of the time. only reason i use it is habit from using spotlight on mac.
- lostmsu 8y agoThere are really bad problems with search, but sometimes it is just enough to type in/remove a single letter. I think that's a mechanism for you to be able to pick between options without the need to stop typing your keyword.