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> if I search on win11 to start a program (which is what they want you to do), why does auto complete call out to the Internet?

This is how I launch most of my programs and it has literally never been an issue for me, it always does exactly what I expect, which is to launch the program I have installed locally.

I don't give a fuck if it makes an HTTP call or performs an incantation to the god of search in the background, as long as it just gives me my locally installed software instantly, which it does.

> As it turns out, I really hated on-call my whole career.

Read my bio.

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Sometimes its not instant though.. sometime web search completes faster then locally installed software and because of muscle memory I accidentally opened a bing page about scrcpy (where the first result is an unaffiliated web page instead of official github page!) instead of my locally installed scrcpy

It's like when you're playing a video game and you accidentally press the wrong button and shoot a guy in the face instead of healing him.

The idea that you could accidentally open a webpage instead of launching a program is a UX embarrassment.

Nope. Today I keyboard-shortcut opened search and tried to search for device manager - no no, it starting auto-completing on browser search (luckily I'd made it Brave at least). On Android you can easily turn that off.

I ended up having to go to Run and type the .msc of device manager - obviously spelled with a shortened version that had to be googled as somehow THAT didn't auto-complete.

Windows 11 needs to be exposed for what it is, a spyware operating system. I had booted into it just to test whether a hardware device was at fault or a USB cable was, then dual-booted back into Linux.

I just tried and device manager appeared right after I had typed "de" only.

I don't know what you guys do with your computers.

I have literally never been proposed internet results. It actually doesn't even propose is as an option. I just tried typing "this is not an existing app" and it just shows that it couldn't find any result, and internet is not even a source I can select.

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