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it's hard to compete with other launchers like:

- Microsoft PowerToys Run https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

- Keypirinha https://github.com/Keypirinha/Keypirinha

- Flow Launcher https://github.com/Flow-Launcher/Flow.Launcher

If they can index google photos and gmail too then I might try.

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If you have the top market position already in browsers and search, pretty easy to get people onto a product like this regardless of whether better alternatives exist.

Isn't that how MS and Google lost anti-trust cases?

Are you sure they lost? If the CEOs had perfect crystal balls and knew that those particular business practices would result in the penalties that they got in their court cases, I bet they still would have done the same things.

Not that I am an expert in each case, but as part of the evidence was that people in leadership/decision making positions were informed that their practices and conduct was unlawful.

> Are you sure they lost?

Well, Chrome and not Microsoft's browser is the dominant webbrowser, and at the heart of MSFT's anti trust case was bundling Internet Explorer with Windows. So, yes. MS did lose.

MS got hit kinda hard back in the 2000s right?

But since then most cases have been nothing more than slaps on the wrist? Have any major companies faced dire consequences for their anticompetitive practice.

So why would they stop using their market position in ways that benefit them and at worst result in minor fines or wrist slaps?

Raycast is also coming to Windows at some point - https://www.raycast.com/windows

It already is on Windows and I've been using it for 1+ months and it is awesome.

Being open source is a big deal to me in tooling. So much so that if google's launcher isn't at least source available, i'll pass

Those have traditionally been for "power" users. Google is targeting "average" users with this, I believe. And if so, I also believe this will have more installs than any (all?) of those within a year.

> Microsoft PowerToys Run

Nice to see, though I gave up on Windows a short a while ago for Linux and KDE's Krunner is seriously awesome; even used it to do some trigonometry the other day!

On KDE plasma, there's KRunner (Alt + Space default), also pretty neat.

no doubt chrome will automatically install it at some point

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