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 4 weeks ago
If my Linux distro searched the internet, when I opened my launcher, I’d be finding a new Linux distro.
poopkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I distinctly recall a version of Ubuntu that not only showed search results, but Amazon shopping links.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
And i no longer use Ubuntu. I remember that too. I also remember such large push back that it was removed
poopkins@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I still have fond memories of using Ubuntu. At the time, it must have been 2009 or so, I was working at a company developing desktop software for Windows, OS X and Debian. It’d be so confusing to constantly switch between operating systems because it’d mess with my muscle memory, but Ubuntu was my favorite because of POSIX and the fantastic file manager.
For my purposes and from my experience, things have improved tremendously on Windows, despite it being popular to hate upon. I still frequently use Mac as well and it’s really hardly changed at all. I confess that I only ever use Fedora on a remote instance for very specific purposes and can’t really judge it fairly on day-to-day usage.