• eah@programming.dev
    3·
    1 hour ago

    KDE’s Plasma Desktop has a web search plugin that I use all the time. Typing the Win (Super) key followed by wp:Sistine Chapel and then the Enter key brings me straight to the Wikipedia entry on the Sistine Chapel. imdb:Jurassic Park brings me to the IMDb page for Jurassic Park. yt: will search YouTube, and so on. There are around 200 keywords pre-programmed into it, including for searching programming language documentation. Unlike the Windows feature displayed here, it doesn’t use the network unless you specify a prefix and it accesses only the service you specify by the keyword. Whoever added this feature had to do so very little work compared to the payoff. It just takes the part after the colon and inserts it into a search URL for the corresponding service and opens that URL in the browser. It’s very convenient.

  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Adding websearch to the start bar’s search was solving a problem that didn’t exist. If I want to search the web, I can use a web browser to do it. I feel like it was added to try to make up for how bad the search used to be (and still is? I just never really had a habit of using it because it was so unreliable and depended on other ways to figure out where things were), so that it would give something, plus MS really wanted bing to be a thing.

    I recently switched to KDE and their main search bar also includes web search. I haven’t looked at the settings for it and expect there’s probably a way to disable that, but I didn’t feel great about seeing that there.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      It’s like, I get the idea of saying “this user is searching for a program they don’t have, let’s link to it” but then they’re like “oh what if we searched for everything?” and then someone else is was like “And what if we put ads in to monetize it!” Then that last person probably got a bonus.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    6 hours ago

    As a software dev I wonder how does this even happen?

    • The movie snippet somehow has bigger weight for ordering - why would that ever be preferred?
    • The ordering is random?
    • The movie snippet is faster than App and Folder snippets?

    It’s incredible how incompetent Microsoft is.

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
      1·
      12 minutes ago

      Theyve been rolling out intellisense for the terminal in Vscode, it’s completely breaking tab complete for me.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        6 hours ago

        but in this example clearly Wikipedia and probably IMDB are not paying them right? Or is it their attempt to disguise selling out by always preferring the buyable option even when it’s at 0$?

  • moonburster@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 hours ago

    I run enterprise to disable this trash behaviour on my gaming rig. I unfortunately want to play some titles that have predatory anti cheat :(

  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Win+x, a, left, enter. Admin power shell in a quick combo.

    But I also get what you are saying. I’m leaving windows because of this. Migrating my services ATM then the last thing will be my win10 desktop.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 hours ago

    When I recently upgrade a hundred windows 10 machines to 11 the majority of the keyboard time to do this was disabling all that shit.

  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
    18·
    9 hours ago

    Am I the only person that still types “command” in the search? It’s windows who is typing “terminal”?

    Yes I know it’s a terminal, but it’s never been called that AFAIK. It’s always been the command prompt.