The Windows OS Thread - Formerly THE OS for gamers and normies, now sadly ruined by Pajeets

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Overly Serious said:
I have the latest Windows update and in the good news, the Start menu and apps do actually start up noticeably more quickly. I am as surprised as anybody else.

On the downside, the idiotic and crappy way search is handled in Windows explorer remains unchanged. Example: You search by name in a directory structure and some of the results are directories matching that name. Great - you click on one of those to open in a new tab in Explorer. What do you get in that new tab? The normal directory path? No. You get "Search Results". Or double click to enter that directory and the path above is still deriving from "Search results".

There is no clean way to get directly from a folder you have found via Search to a normal path for that folder. You have to right click on it, select "Copy as Path", go to either the current address bar in Explorer or one in a new tab, paste the result in, delete the quote marks from either end, then hit return. Now you have a normal file path that you can go up and down from, etc.

Idiocy.
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If you want better windows search, give power toys a shot. I got it for the macOS style spotlight launcher, but I think it has a more tunable search in it.

 
Orcinus Orca said:
  • Weird-ass file system for Linux. USBs are OBVIOUSLY a separate disk, not even part of the operating system!
  • Hypertechnical. Ohh, would you like the GAYNIGGERBALLS file manager or the HYPERTROPHIC BANANADICKSHIT DE (HBDDE)?
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1. While Windows file system is based around the idea that you would have floppy drives (Hence why your boot drive is the C: drive because it’s assumed you wail have up to two floppy drives) Linux generally considers each drive to be a directory within the root drive as in the past when file usage got bigger then the available drives available it became necessary to move system directories like /usr or /home to a second drive, while still having the files in the same place in the directory. Nowadays it means that basically any directory can be made into a drive. You can use the auto mounts that put it in a long ass gibberish location or you could change it so drives boot in a location of your choosing, such as /data or /home/(your username)/SteamLibrary

2. I still don’t really understand what you’re referring to. Cinnamon is Cinnamon and the file manager uses a rather obvious file manager logo. Are you upset that Linux didn’t call their apps the exact same names that Windows calls its apps?
 
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