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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

the thing that always bugs the shit out of me about windows' many problems is that they're all so low-effort to fix. making the start menu search Not Total Bullshit is so trivial it could literally be an interview question. it's something you give a junior dev to just get an idea of what their style is like. any outcome is valid. it's fucking hello world


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

the difference between the operating systems:

apple: gets it absolutely right for someone. totally useless for you, but someone is incredibly happy with it

microsoft: gets it wrong for everyone, in a way that's positively a rakestep. you can't figure out how they screwed it up, and it's a ten-line fix. you are absolutely screaming at your screen going "jesus god christ almighty just LET ME AT IT i don't even know what i'm doing but somehow YOU KNOW LESS"

linux: gets it wrong for everyone, in a way that's positively a rakestep. you can't figure out how they screwed it up and it's a ten-line fix. you submit the fix. 40 people say it's what they always wanted and that they can't find any bugs. a guy named Gunther, who literally everyone hates, has total domain over the project. he remembers one time you disagreed with him about a font in 2015 and immediately WONTFIXes your bug and insults you openly. nobody has any power over him and nobody will even openly say he's being a cock because then he'll remember that too.


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

i use windows because I know that it's problems actually can't be fixed, not just that they aren't because it would threaten one guy's manhood to fix them


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

we could fix the Bluetooth stack forgetting paired devices or getting confused by having two devices with the same name easily but it behooves us more to make an HD remaster of Spider Solitaire with advertisements, Downloadable Content and Xbox Achievements instead

if there is a purpose for computers, it is to allow you to arbitrarily plug things into other things, without anything being a "host" or "client" or "upstream" or "downstream." any compatible stream should fit any receptacle. the fact that the only OS I've ever seen lean into this at all (and even then, not by much) is OSX is one of those things that makes you wonder why we even bother at all

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

"this script has been passed around video production houses for 16 years because no one was willing to upstream it" was a thing I was told while doing TV production internships when I was 18

(edit: oops I extrapolated to the present the first time, its 16y at the time)

it was some ancient character generator everyone managed to get linux running on because at the time in the late 2000s the alternative was 10k USD

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

I like the idea of the start menu search as a junior dev project; the original platform_unix code in Launchy made me simultaneously lol and weep the first time I read it, for it is the most junior of junior dev half-understood doing-naive-substring-searches-in-.desktop-files flavoured dross, but it shows what a terrible programmer someone can be and still create serviceable things that can be useful productivity tools

For actual windows start menu search I use open shell (formerly classic shell) https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu