Seriously, whoever redesigned the search function f*cked it up

@Burnley123 They could've kept the same "engine" under the hood and just revamped the interface. But they wanted to kill everything instead 😅

@basilfawlty89 People who can't change their default browser and search engine. Even if mostly to search "google".

@basilfawlty89 bing gives me the hives

@basilfawlty89 I miss being able to search files from the GUI without having to fire up a shell all the time

@DDonde True. It still somewhat sucks at finding files, tho.

@empanadas But this is W10! Oh don't even get me started on W11, I've opened the new Start menu like twice and that was enough to roll back to W10 immediately 😅

@Elessar bottom pic is windows 11. I know because that shit gave me nightmares

@BlueGreenGrey You're thinking of huge products (Photoshop, Office, etc.) that are maintained by huge corporations that can afford rewriting them at the occurrence and maintaining cross-platform forks. But there is also a sh*tton of software that would take years to rewrite and that is critical for business operation. They're not necessarily small, nor necessarily ancient; they're just highly specialized, maintained by at best ~10 developers or so who can't afford a complete rewrite. A transition of Windows to the UNIX world would most likely kill it in the process, and with it many businesses that relied on their ecosystem.

@BlueGreenGrey Ah literally anything that operates with proprietary hardware, in particular if involving a driver. Industrial automation, but even a sh*tton of managerial software (ERPs, CRMs), PBXs (and those are extremely delicate software already, and we all know how "well" audio works on Linux..), business-specific in-house software / proprietary software, governmental software (there's still stuff around that seems designed with Windows 95 in mind, doesn't work unless you run it as administrator all the time and install it in a subdirectory of the C:\ drive; good luck seeing *NIX ports of these lol, they'll recommend people/businesses to keep them in old Windows VMs before they'll consider a port). I don't even think it's a matter of transition time, a lot of realities (or even countries) would go out of business if Windows NT was ever abandoned, that's how bad it is.

There's one product like that where I work (early 2010s Delphi codebase targeting Win32), but the projects I'm personally assigned to are generally modern/platform-agnostic.

If they announced Windows would become just another Linux distribution, why should I even wait for then and not migrate straight away to an already well-established distro? The only reason why I would stick with Windows is for the NT kernel, if I'll be getting Windows UI with an underlying GNU/Linux and no NT retrocompatibility I might as well just redeploy every workstation with KDE Neon and even save money on the OS license. There's also a licensing issue, with GNU/Linux being GPL they'd have quite a hard time distributing it as a part of a historically proprietary / closed source OS, unless they went for a radical change in the licensing model too.