It’s just a search bar located in the start menu and on the task bar, that combines local search with web results. For pro users it is pretty terrible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many regular users like it. You still have a normal local file search from within the file explorer.
That’s not true, all my files are stored on onedrive nowadays, which is super fast and responsive. Oh wait… it’s actually slow and laggy and randomly deletes stuff from your pc and you’re not even allowed to give your files perfectly normal names like .aux files in a LaTeX project.
I blocked bing.com on my PC (invalid hostname resolution through hosts entry) because despite best efforts to disable any websearch functionality in Windows search, it still showed up.
It took 5 minutes to get my father in law to open teamviewer because he kept clicking on the first result which for some reason brought him to the teamviewer website instead of opening the fucking software he had installed already.
Searching the filesystem. There’s no reason Windows Search needs to access the internet. Fucking Bing.
It does what now? Why would it do that?
It’s been doing it since Windows 8.
I had to manually stop it from doing exactly that. Every time windows updated I had to do it again
I do not regret swapping to linux
It’s just a search bar located in the start menu and on the task bar, that combines local search with web results. For pro users it is pretty terrible, but I wouldn’t be surprised if many regular users like it. You still have a normal local file search from within the file explorer.
No we don’t. It keeps opening web pages that are completely irrelevant.
If you’re on Lemmy, I would wager you’re not part of the “regular users” that were referred to.
It helps use Microsoft’s Windows monopoly to promote Bing.
I imagine that at some point the EU antitrust people might get grouchy about that.
That’s not true, all my files are stored on onedrive nowadays, which is super fast and responsive. Oh wait… it’s actually slow and laggy and randomly deletes stuff from your pc and you’re not even allowed to give your files perfectly normal names like .aux files in a LaTeX project.
Convenient indexed search was the only real improvement Windows made since XP and now they’ve ruined it. Windows XP is once again superior.
At least we have Everything for local search.
True story!
I blocked bing.com on my PC (invalid hostname resolution through
hostsentry) because despite best efforts to disable any websearch functionality in Windows search, it still showed up.It took 5 minutes to get my father in law to open teamviewer because he kept clicking on the first result which for some reason brought him to the teamviewer website instead of opening the fucking software he had installed already.
And you know what? I can’t blame him at all