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p1peridine | 3 years ago
It took the interns at Microsoft, what, nearly 10 years to fix the whole search function fiasco? Not impressive, and a working search function can not be considered a feature.
> Previously if you wanted to go into the windows registry editor, you had to know the right incantation, but now, all you have to do is hit the Windows/Meta key and type 'reg'
The same search, but on Windows 10 with Open Shell [0]: https://i.imgur.com/YyxIzcO.png
And in my opinion, the start menu is much better looking: https://i.imgur.com/NeXwFlM.png
> it even shows you power-user stuff really intuitively.
Examples?
In my circles I can't think of a single developer and/or power-user that use, or plan on using Windows 11 (except in a virtual machine for quick compatibility-testing). We're all on micropatched W7's or Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC - otherwise Linux. W11 has sort of become one of the topics we joke about during lunch.
Power-users do not care about a cool and stylish UI, new icons or a simple working search function.
> A lot of these blog posts (like many comments in this thread sadly) are low effort hate/FUD for farming clickbait/karma rather than objective analysis.
ghacks has been covering Windows for many years. It's also not clickbait and MS are turning the operating system into an ad platform, unfortunately.
ChuckNorris89|3 years ago
Look, I wasn't tryin to start a Windows 7 vs 10 vs 11 vs MacOS vs Linux holy war, I was just pointing out that contrary to the article, I have yet to see any ads in the Windows 11 start menu, and the start menu search function works flawlessly on Windows 11 for me, contrary to what this shallow blog article which had no substance backed by tests and evidence.
>It took the interns at Microsoft, what, nearly 10 years to fix the whole search function fiasco? Not impressive, and a working search function can not be considered a feature.
As long as it works flawlessly for me in the present day, what difference does the past 10 years make for me? Microsoft devs aren't paid by my wages and I always judge the current version of any tech product, not some relics form the past. Linux also works great now for gaming, so who cares it didn't work 10 years ago?
>Power-users do not care about a cool and stylish UI, new icons or a simple working search function.
Average Joe users who user their PC for entertainment and work, with a life outside of micropatching their OS, do care about things being simple and working out of the box, and that's the target audience for such an OS. Powerusers are a special breed no company targets because they can never be pleased so it's never profitable. They have GNU/Linux for that.
p1peridine|3 years ago
We'll see. If I'm not mistaken the author has written books on Windows even. Why would he lie about something so stupid? ghacks is not a blog it's a tech news site and pretty well known. Perhaps you don't like it because of the sites critical view regarding Windows?
> Average Joe users who user their PC for entertainment and work
Don't bring up average Joe - we're talking about power-users, you were the one who brought up 'power-user stuff' and that's what I quoted you on. I wanted to share the perspective of someone who do not share your praise and excitement for W11. Many seem to not share your experience that is an ad free, lovely OS.