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Office is large and may not load instantly. If you use it all day anyway, preloading and not closing it makes sense. The same way I preload Emacs and Firefox.
by nine_k 2y ago
Office is large and may not load instantly. If you use it all day anyway, preloading and not closing it makes sense. The same way I preload Emacs and Firefox.
Of course if you do not use Office all day, and are OK to wait until it loafs on demand, the preloading should be turned off.
(And, frankly, if you don't use Office, why do you need Windows anyway? To play games that don't run on a Steamdeck?)
- eviks 2y ago> why do you need Windows anyway? To play games that don't run on a Steamdeck? To instantly find any file anywhere, nice productivity boost (among many)
- _Algernon_ 2y agoReally? Windows isn't exactly known for the quality of it's search. It becoming consistently worse with every Windows version has been a meme for at more than a decade.
- eviks 2y agoBut Windows is know for a lot of productivity apps other platforms lack. I meant the Everything file search app (doesn't exist on Linux/Mac), not the default Windows search
- nine_k 2y ago> "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows. Well, on Linux I have `locate` and `fd` which work really well, doing that very thing, and `ripgrep` does even more. I heard something built-in is also shipped with macOS, it's called something like "Spotlight". OTOH MS Excel for Windows is one and only, the macOS version barely holds a candle to it, and analogs are even further away.
- eviks 2y ago"that very thing" was instant and anywhere (not your irrelevant generic description), which your suggested tools can't do. You're just content with a poor cli substitute.
- _Algernon_ 2y agoThere are also GUIs for this, though I haven't compared the two directly: eg. https://www.recoll.org/ https://www.recoll.org/
- tekla 2y agoThere is a list of software several miles long that does not work on non-Windows