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Thank God Everything exists
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Darn, they're still developing this? I remember this from like 10 years ago.
I've since moved on to WizTree, but Everything was a lifesaver.
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Single most useful tool I've ever downloaded
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Transform your Marseys!
www.pastebin.com/Jj9URfVi
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Zoomerisation of operating systems
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How does rDrama blame everything on !zoomers
Bro I promise you the shitty search feature is for taking advantage of
who still reads MSN.
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Think that they didn't teach zoomoids recursion or something in school even tho their r-slurred asses are the ones teaching EEs worthless shit like power systems engineering instead of front end development
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You mean the big app
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Do even zoomers need to search every line of text in every file on their pc? The only target audience for this is the world's most unhinged codecel and he probably uses some Linux os he made himself, maybe Ubuntu if he's a g*mer.
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I need this often!
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Shut up jewish chad
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It's funny that you post this because 2 days ago I forgot to plug my laptop and it died, which forced it to shut down and automatically update (which I never do and always postpone), and upon booting I was greeted with a giant fricking bing searchbar plastered on top of my home screen with 5 different speech bubbles telling me how to use it and why I should keep it. Really
makes 
you 
feel 
a certain way.
I'm so fricking fed up with microshaft I'm genuinely gonna set up dual-boot on my machine and install some linux distro on it to slowly make the switch. For real this time. I just gotta find some free time to do it.
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If you really
cared youd have taken the five seconds to google 
disabling updates etc.
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Ehh I messed around with the registry but couldn't get it to fully work and just gave up
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Windows update blocker
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The registry app is mean.
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The PC I use most frequently has debian now because sometimes I do not have the hour to wait for updates to finish
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Real talk the steam OS on my steam deck is great it's an Arch distro and has steam baked in for gaming with proton so you can play a lot of non Linux games no problem.
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It's honestly incredible how functional and user friendly SteamOS is. Valve knocked it out of the park with both hardware and software and the other handhelds aren't even in the same league
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it's because Valve is a buisness and as such can get past the age old linux hurdle of ":marseynerd2: um actually u can just do that via terminal" and made a usable OS out of it lol
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Yeah the “store” for software is pretty complete and everything is flatpack so no terminal is required for the Normies.
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I'd rip the band-aid off and go with linux. Install windows as a VM, or Wine which can install some windows programs that you
must have 
. Dual-booting sucks, aside from shutting down everything to boot up the other, because windows hates when something else accesses all those files, so you may get permissions problems.
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Dual booting was nice before
apple 
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The only reason to go with Windows as the base OS is vidya, and the performance demand of modern vidya is not going to mesh well with Wine or a VM.
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WRONG! If you use zfs to create a zqcow(?) "partition" on an SSD array and install the VM on that--with the right kind of additional zfs settings, then it runs just as fine.
It's just a b-word to set up!
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I didn't say it won't run, I said it incurs a performance overhead.
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It's been smooth sailing for me.
Just need a GPU dedicated to only that VM because GPU passthrough (and shared with the host) is a myth.
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just make a windows image with all the shit stripped out and turn off updates. it takes a minute but better than going full gay nerd and using linux
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make sure to disable security updates first they take up the most space
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I wiped my work machine and installed linux on it, I ssh into it to do my work, it's great
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Windows in 2023 kind of hates dual booting. Linux tries to be a good citizen and then windows will shut up everything.
I'd at least experiment in a VM and take stock of what apps are essential.
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Thanks for info, I'll probably do that first then especially since it'd be easier to set up.
Do you have a stance in the ubuntu vs debian question?
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I would try Pop_OS! Which is just Ubuntu but better and includes some drivers, like Nvidia, that aren't currently included in the kernel.
Ubuntu will still be very approachable but it's definitely lost its spark.
I would avoid Manjaro.
I've never been a fan of Debian due to their “stability” stance - which a lot of people agree is a meme by now. There's ways to get much more current packages but that's a tad in the weeds for a beginner.
I currently use Fedora which is glorious and just had a new release. It updates every six months roughly and has a very nice, curated experience but all the packages are fresh -often times beating Arch.
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Just to add to this, yes skip Manjaro, but if you have a hankering to get into the Arch pool, EndeavourOS does a pretty good job of making it easy to get started without pooping up the things that make Arch worthwhile.
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I'm honestly surprised how well Fedora scratches my arch itch and I've also found Alpine and Void to be “arch taken to the extreme” replacements.
For GNOME workstations I like Fedora for hacking around in Sway I'm loving Void.
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Debian stability is more about servers because OS updates are a big deal for software development. It's not that important for end users.
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I'm less inclined to agree that staying on an ancient versions of programs is actually a good strategy.
Security patches are usually acceptable on a stable package but by the time you're backporting bug fixes you end up with weird special snowflake versions that don't reflect upstream at any point in time.
This of course implies you do get backported bugfixes.
What often happens is your “stable” program actually has many bugs which were fixed in upstream ages ago, but you may not get them for years.
The idea that old = stable and new = buggy is a false dichotomy and we should instead focus on how bugs get fixed.
Using an OS that updates more frequently or is outright rolling does force you to make changes to your applications. However, you can do this piecemeal instead of having to make many, huge changes when your library is truly EOL. The fact is your software will need to be updated at some point and kicking the can down the road actually increases your pain.
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Yeah, that's a good point. I was just talking about OS updates, not program updates, but the fact that they force devs to update their programs more often is a benefit of more frequent updating. I can see how the stability thing could be an outdated mentality in today's much more dynamic software ecosystem.
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I need to play with it more but I think NixOS might be the solution to both problems.
You can get the oldest packages as you want with the exact libraries needed while running it beside the master branch you compiled yourself.
EDIT: That's not mentioning all the Infrastructure as Code power of it either.
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I never get autists who seethe at Windows Updates but never move onto Linux. Just switch already you dumb b-word or take the updates ffs.
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For Linux
I recommend Pop OS. Very user friendly.
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Thanks, but after looking around I think I already found a Linux distro that I'll be using
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ur not
@GeraIt_of_Uganda GET OUT OF MY HEAD 
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You're right, he's
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They lost the plot the moment they removed the colors from their logo
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Nothing to discuss here, it's like discussing if having dementia is a fun experience.
I have opened useless bing search tabs (that automatically start Edge for that extra clutter) more times than I found what I was looking for with this "search" tool.
One thing worth discussing is that it puts pictures and folders below web search, for that extra user experience hit.
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Windows key
“calculator”
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“No results found.”
How is it so fricking terrible?? How is there not a congressional inquiry into it? ?
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I'm starting to blame zoomers less for not being computer literate. Turns out we just grew up in the golden age
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Even XP search was dogshit for me. Took forever and could never get what I was looking for. I think I had the least amount of problems with 7
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7 was peak civilization
Only been downhill since then
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Bullshit, XP was the peak but both it and 7 still had shit search functionality.
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But it had a cute dog animation
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Windows 7 was fantastic at least compared to everything else they've offered. The whole potting ads into your OS they're trying to do with 10 is cancer and needs to die.
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Yeah, whoever made this meme doesn't realize that Windows search has been shit forever.
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You know what grinds my gear even worse as a boomer - why the frick do I want to save every fricking thing to one drive or the “cloud”? I just want to save my file to the fricking desktop like I always have frick off with one drive.
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Blew my mind when I learned pressing F12 in Word/Excel/etc gives me a traditional Save As dialog instead of this Web 5.0 "save to the cloud, or onedrive, or your company storage, or i guess on the desktop like a pervert?"
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Oh you are a king for telling me this.
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Nice
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This shit is a lie. Windows search never worked before win 7. Zoomers don't remember how much of a joke it used to be.
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I remember searching for stuff on XP. It took forever and usually failed, but at least it didn't default to fetching web results and pretending like that's what I wanted.
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Everything sucks nowadays.
When i search my Gmail, just show me results in reverse chronological order. Don't assume which email I'm probably thinking of and offer "top results"
And eBay, frick. I selected "condition:used sort:lowest type:buy-it-now location:usa" filters for a reason. Don't erase them just because I changed a single number in my search.
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Windows
10 is made for boomers and gen whatever 
the frick who will oneday worship 
the spark boxes
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This is the middle
of that bell curve meme
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Frick them for not allowing two settings windows as they continue to neuter control panel.
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Hurr durr im too dumb to change it to not search
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“Just change the registry setting” has the same energy as “just edit this file in /etc” which I thought excluded Linux from ever being a usable OS.
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I switched to Gahnoo-slash-Leenooks because I felt it was more user-friendly than Windows 8. Imagine Windows being that bad.
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Absolute cute twinkry, but it's Microsoft so it's to be expected.
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Is that even an option? I thought it required setting registry keys and that hasn't worked for me
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Skill issue. But yeah I tried as well and it didn't work for me.
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Just wait until you will have to pray to the AI Omnissiah to do anything on your machine
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OP is a cute twink
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i just store all my files in the cloud so bing search can find all my files
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Microsoft has been cucked since the government buck broke them over netscape navigator
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If you're still using Windows in 2023, you're a fricking idiot.
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They don't want you to have an easy time finding the government sanctioned malware.
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Either way it takes 9 hours to search through the names of 60 documents.
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File Explorer search is still far better than it used to be. I remember Windows 7 File Explorer search being functionally useless.
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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
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All them words won't bring your pa back.
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I fricking hate the dumbing down and modernisation of operating systems. Turns out the Brits were right about one thing, and that is that computers and the Internet need a license to access. Get these fricking r-slurs off my technology and let me brick my computer if I need to Gates you fricking shitsniffer.
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mostly because winshittery doesn't have indexing enabled by default anymore for whatever reason, ae:
Which limits it to desktop and like, your documents folder.
You can disable the web results in the registry as well
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I literally never bother using the search bar for anything besides apps
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Windows 11 search bar seems much better than windows 10 but I haven't used their file search feature in explorer.
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I love Windows 11. It's a great OS.
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/installation_guide
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Xybrowser maybe
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It's because Windows search by default indexes only user documents and other r-slurred locations instead of the whole drive with some exceptions. Windows is a fricking disgrace, most popular operating system in the world and those morons can't even keep a consistent theme between windows. Ironic.
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dir filename.* /s /p
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https://www.voidtools.com/downloads
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I would stare at that dog for like 10 minutes waiting as the celeron and ancient HD spun up
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I don't think I've ever needed to search for something. I know where all my shit is.
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