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Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker - techemails.com (www.techemails.com)
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[–] 2 points 1 month ago (11 children)

i don't even use menus anymore. it's slow. heck I even hate using the mouse these days. We had the right idea back in the 80s and early 90s by running everything via the command line. it's faster. Now to open stuff I just use a launcher. it's faster to type what I want to run then it is to use a mouse to go find it in a menu.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    On Linux, I can pull up the system menu, type in a few letters of what I want to launch, and hit enter to get it started in less than 2 seconds, without having to open or switch windows to a terminal. Done right, there's nothing wrong with menus.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I can pull up the system menu, type in a few letters of what I want to launch, and hit enter to get it started in less than 2 seconds, without having to open or switch windows to a terminal

    That's what I do in Windows, but I hit the Windows key instead of Enter

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Yeah but as per the post, windows menu is taking forever to open...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    For me, the Windows key stroke can often be part of the next few letters I'm searching for, and my machine is a mid-range (at-best) build from 2020.

    And that was before I installed an app that gets rid of most of the junk in the Start menu, turning into just a Search field with a power button! Lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    on linux, I can just start typing what I want to launch. No menu needed.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Well you have to be typing it somewhere

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago (2 children)

    As long as I am not actively using a window thats capturing input, it can be anywhere.

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