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More info about it here: https://www.ghacks.net/2024/08/13/windows-11-start-menu-is-getting-a-new-layout-to-organize-your-apps/

I love how microsoft never learns their lessons.

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[-] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

They want to be as sleek as apple but it comes off as an old man trying to be hip

[-] hibsen@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago

And maybe I'm using it wrong, but it just...doesn't work. I use spotlight search on my MacBook to find programs and things and it just finds them. It's fast enough to be faster than me opening things off the dock.

I try to use the search on my wife's Win11 computer and half the time it sends me to a website for a program she already has installed.

Like if you want to imitate, even badly, the imitation should at least be functional.

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

There's a reason they made PowerToys Run. It's miles ahead of the default Windows search experience.

[-] vikingtons@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

feels to me that people who work on other parts of the OS are getting fed up with the default shell experience to such an extent that they have to build their own skunkwoks solutions

[-] pycorax@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

It was actually a third party open source project originally lol

[-] Wildly_Utilize@infosec.pub 4 points 2 months ago

There's a registry key to make it not search online

It still doesn't work very well tho

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Apple hasn't innovated in decades... It's anything but sleek if we're talking about macs.

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