He elaborated that older menus were essentially just unhiding a pre-rendered, fixed layout panel with zero DPI scaling changes and no network requests. Today, the Windows 11 Start menu is constantly pulling in recommended recent documents, cloud files, and web search results.
What about not doing any network request and looking up for search’s that nobody asked for?
Spotlight is awesome and I love it (Mac user here).
When I had Windows, I did try Everything (which is basically Spotlight for Windows) and I didn’t get it. Now I do. I regret not using that program more. Way back in the day, in Windows 95, I used to have “short codes” set up for nearly every application on my computer, and I think it was .bat shortcuts that launched them. So Win+R, the short code, the app launches. I don’t think autocomplete was a thing then (otherwise it would have been unnecessary). I had the short codes taped to the side of the tower, printed, but with a bunch of hand-written ones added after. So I’ve really been doing this for about 30 years off and on.
What about not doing any network request and looking up for search’s that nobody asked for?
What about showing the result that exactly matches the search query instead of a bunch of similar items?
For instance, when you type in the word “add” as in, “add or remove a program”, why the fuck does start show you printers?
Interestingly, macOS’ Spotlight search can do this exact same thing, without any major performance hits…
Spotlight is awesome and I love it (Mac user here).
When I had Windows, I did try Everything (which is basically Spotlight for Windows) and I didn’t get it. Now I do. I regret not using that program more. Way back in the day, in Windows 95, I used to have “short codes” set up for nearly every application on my computer, and I think it was .bat shortcuts that launched them. So Win+R, the short code, the app launches. I don’t think autocomplete was a thing then (otherwise it would have been unnecessary). I had the short codes taped to the side of the tower, printed, but with a bunch of hand-written ones added after. So I’ve really been doing this for about 30 years off and on.