Open up your start menu and start typing, what comes up? Is it just apps or in other words program within your local hardware? Are there suggestions from the Internet or in other words an advertisement.
Open up your start menu and start typing, what comes up? Is it just apps or in other words program within your local hardware? Are there suggestions from the Internet or in other words an advertisement.
poopkins@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The results are honestly pretty spot on, at least for my use cases, and this isn’t different from how Chromebooks or MacOS does it (although for the latter, Spotlight results are hilariously terrible). Even Linux distros often combine on-device and online search results—are those also advertisements? I’m puzzled why Windows is called out in particular on this.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
If my Linux distro searched the internet, when I opened my launcher, I’d be finding a new Linux distro.
poopkins@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I distinctly recall a version of Ubuntu that not only showed search results, but Amazon shopping links.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
And i no longer use Ubuntu. I remember that too. I also remember such large push back that it was removed