• JigglySackles@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 minutes ago

    Win+x, a, left, enter. Admin power shell in a quick combo.

    But I also get what you are saying. I’m leaving windows because of this. Migrating my services ATM then the last thing will be my win10 desktop.

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    12 minutes ago

    As a software dev I wonder how does this even happen?

    • The movie snippet somehow has bigger weight for ordering - why would that ever be preferred?
    • The ordering is random?
    • The movie snippet is faster than App and Folder snippets?

    It’s incredible how incompetent Microsoft is.

  • rook@lemmy.zip
    16·
    2 hours ago

    or when you speed type something and it just opens edge and searches bing for the app you tried to open

  • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 hours ago

    When I recently upgrade a hundred windows 10 machines to 11 the majority of the keyboard time to do this was disabling all that shit.

  • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
    15·
    4 hours ago

    Am I the only person that still types “command” in the search? It’s windows who is typing “terminal”?

    Yes I know it’s a terminal, but it’s never been called that AFAIK. It’s always been the command prompt.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 hours ago

    On the one (windows) machine i actively use powershell i click the pinned start menu icon.

    Windows has fucked my flow before by co opting my shortcuts. So this is the most reliable way.

    On linux terminal is a shortcut, app launcher is a shortcut and searching apps to launch actually works and doesn’t open my browser that operates under a different privacy contract then your os settings.

    I despised windows search long before i switched i just didn’t know any better.

    • __hetz@sh.itjust.works
      3·
      1 hour ago

      On my one remaining Windows machine, I installed PowerToys and use the “Run” launcher. Alt+Space opens Run. If you lead with a . you’ll search programs. Alt+Space, .term, for example, should immediately show Terminal and you can slap enter to open it. You can also do stuff like = 1 + 1 or = 0b101 + 0xf for quick calculations, %% for unit conversion (%% 10MB to Mb), etc. It’s not KRunner, dmenu, etc but it definitely beats the hell out of the start menu.

      PowerToys “Keyboard Manager” might let you reclaim some shortcuts as well. I used it to swap Caps Lock and Escape but I’m pretty sure it can be used to create custom shortcuts. There’s also some option to remap shortcuts on a program specific basis. So you can say Alt+T should send Ctrl+T but only when Firefox has focus, for example. Haven’t messed with it myself but I can see the value.

      Still looking forward to ditching Windows entirely but, in the meantime, MS has some decent tools that aren’t included by default and don’t seem to be advertised because power users aren’t the target market and “they already know to look for it” I guess.

      • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
        2·
        59 minutes ago

        the windows key + r will open the Run command window, seems a lot easier then what you did for that but the other stuff PowerToys do is worth it

  • imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    6·
    3 hours ago

    What is the difference of Terminal to say cmd or PowerShell?

    ~~Edit: seems to be the same thing as cmd. I usually access it with Win+R or search for cmd in start. ~~

    Another edit: My work machine is Win10. There is no Terminal on my system it seems. If I search for Terminal in Start, cmd shows as the only option.

    • Billegh@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 hours ago

      To your edit, it isn’t the same thing as cmd. It’s more like konsole or kitty or gnome-terminal. It is a terminal container that can run cmd or powershell or bash for you.

      It has other features that are nice, and that more useful systems have had since the 90s. If you’re stuck on windows, it’s to putty what ie used to be for netscape. You can use it to download putty, or use it and only be mildly irritated on someone else’s system.

    • filcuk@lemmy.zip
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Terminal is new and a lot more flexible. It’s more of a frontend to whatever you’re using, be it cmd, powershell or wsl bash

    • konalt@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Terminal can have multiple tabs, multiple different processes (so you can have a powershell and a cmd running in different tabs) and better WSL support AFAIK. It’s wt in the Run dialog. (I’m pretty sure typing “cmd” now just opens a cmd window in terminal too)