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MarkusWandel ◴[] No.43526323[source]
Three modern desktop environments that I use:

- Windows 10/11. Especially in 11, it's easiest just to type the start of an app's name into the search box. As opposed to the two clicks it takes to get to the "traditional" menu where you still have to scroll to find it.

- Gnome (only on fresh Linux installs, usually replaced with Mate pretty soon). Has a smartphone-style app grid, but here, too, its quickest just to type the start of the app's name.

- Mate: Modern, but still has the Windows 95 paradigm (easy enough to collapse the two toolbars into just one bottom one). Still my favourite desktop environment.

Not all fancy graphic stuff is good. And don't even get me started on how hard it is to drag an app window to another screen these days - on Windows. You really have to find the 2% or so of the top bar that's still draggable and not cluttered up by other stuff.

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teamonkey ◴[] No.43526717[source]
How do you get Windows to launch an installed app after you type the first few letters, instead of searching the web with Edge and Bing?
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1. MarkusWandel ◴[] No.43526842[source]
Type into the search box and when the app icon comes up, click on it.
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2. arcmechanica ◴[] No.43527900[source]
"I searched bing for you and here's the link to Word on the web"
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3. MarkusWandel ◴[] No.43529108[source]
Dunno. On the relatively clean Windows 11 on my laptop, on which I'd never run Teams before, I typed "tea" into the search box (no ENTER) and while it also offered to look up on the web about "Tea" it did show "Microsoft Teams (personal) (app) at the top right with a large, clickable icon.