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Worst thing in Windows is still search, it doesnt work unless you type the exact letters in order.
by locusm 7y ago
Worst thing in Windows is still search, it doesnt work unless you type the exact letters in order.
- input_sh 7y agoAbsolutely agree. How hard is it to find the closest match? On my OS of choice, I can type pretty much anything resembling Firefox in the search bar ("ffx", "fref", "ref", "fox"...) and it'll output a proper result — instantly. Every Windows encounter feels dreadful in comparison. It can't get the simplest tasks right.
- CathedralBorrow 7y agoI still laugh whenever I can't remember the exact name of my bittorrent client and Windows has no clue what I'm looking for when I enter "torrent" or "bittorrent". It's called qbittorrent.
- stallmanite 7y agoMicrosoft research is still perfecting the "substring search" technology.
- lordgrenville 7y agoThere's an amazing OS program called Wox [0], which uses Everything [1] (an infinitely better search program) to produce an experience similar to Spotlight on Mac. Can't recommend it highly enough. (No affiliation, just a fan) [0] http://www.wox.one/ http://www.wox.one/ [1] https://www.voidtools.com/ https://www.voidtools.com/
- locusm 7y agoCheers, will check it out
- GordonS 7y agoI actually love Windows 10, but god, why is the Start menu search functionality is still so abysmally, terribly awful?! It gets me every time I want to open the control panel or a setting page - it's just... awful! And why does it still search the web when I've disabled Cortana?! If I want to search the web, I'll use a browser! It really doesn't seem like it would be difficult to fix - I just can't understand how it's still so bad.