Cool and all, but they wont get people like me back. I am happy to have switched to nobara.

Well done. They fixed a very simple basic component that was working perfectly fine 17 years ago and that they broke on purpose.

A "crazy fast" start menu is a base line feature. It should have never been anything else than crazy fast. It's like claiming that Mercedes finally managed to get all four wheels on their car to spin the same way.

Not surprising. Web search from the Start Menu was always a bad idea.

Hell, I've had to deal with users getting their systems compromised because of this idiocy. User typed 'ms teams' in the start menu, clicked on the first link and ended up at an attacker's page which mimicked the official Teams download page. User clicked "Download", received the trojaned .msi file and ran it.

Sure, there's some blame to go around in that case (and we finally got some default configuration changes out of it), but the fact that Microslop's greed led to a malvertising link showing up in a user's Start Menu is indicative of everything wrong with Windows 11.

Cool, now do that five years ago

Pro corporate vote manipulation happening right here in this thread. This is not normal. Regardless of MicroSlop's good or bad decision if you shared an anti MicroSlop comment it would be upvoted regardless in tje past now quite massive downvotes. And my guess triggered specifically by the word "MicroSlop".

too little, too late

If they want to push Bing so hard I wonder why didn't they just show you the local results first and then asynchronously load Bing suggestions in a separate section. It would make good UX while still promoting their search engine.

Good that it can be disabled though

What? How is this new? I've had web results disabled via the settings for a while now

Microslop can still fuck off, too little too late.

One of the biggest Windows habits I've had to break is using file explorer to open documents and files. This was because memorizing file paths is way faster than using search. Search in Windows has never been good, because it's always been weighted toward what Microslop wants you to find. And the index goes to shit if a user does something unexpected like saving, moving, or deleting files.

Linux search just works. If I know the file name, there is no reason to open a file explorer at all. Just mash the power key and start typing.

Linux does this too. GNOME and KDE both do web searches from the search menu by default (to be more precise they search the app store, which is on the web)

I have done this (or had this done by IT) on every Windows 10/11 machine that I have had to use. There has long been a registry tweak to kill the online search and it really does improve the experience.

I don't know any company named Microsoft. Do you mean Microslop?

irs remind me teh atrocious active desktop on win98. wen you DARED turn it on hooo buy the pc was slow.

Are we sure they did it on purpose? At this point I can totally see Microsoft improving Windows being totally accidental.

Sorry we intended to put in more ads.

That's like them deliberately closing a strait (for profit), and then reopening it to much glory to their very achievement.

And they didn't even debloat telemetry, they just turned off the ads.

Also what local search these days isn't close to instant (which I would say it's faster than "crazy fast")?

Is Windows open-source yet? Then who cares?

is it ripgrep level of "crazy fast" tho?

That's nice still never gonna use MicroSlop tools