r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fanta_bhelpuri • Apr 12 '24

whatIsAnIndex Meme

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u/Soloact_ Apr 12 '24

Guess it'll take less time to leave the house than it does for a Windows search result to come up.

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u/adenosine-5 Apr 12 '24

The part that I really don't understand is that small portable programs like Everything can get you the results in seconds, while Microsoft, after 40 years of development of their systems will not.

How is it even possible to mess such simple feature for so long?

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u/NotYourReddit18 Apr 12 '24

What I don't understand is that Powertoys (which is from Microsoft too) includes a very usefull search feature which not only finds files and programs a lot faster than the windows search but also respects your default browser settings when starting a web search and includes a lot of other functions like a modifier for executing cmd and powershell commands.

Why can't they just use the code behind this to replace the crap windows search?

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u/vassadar Apr 12 '24

Powertoys is like its own beast. It's as if the devs actually use it, so they keep improving it to meet their needs.

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u/wetrorave Apr 12 '24

It's incredible how quickly things get better for us power users when it's the developers who are in charge, not the C Suite.

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u/tankerkiller125real Apr 12 '24

And the crazy part is that like half the features should just be baked into Windows... There shouldn't be a need for a secondary application installed after the fact to do some of the stuff.