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I never visited your webpage before, I didn't even get to read the article, why the hell are you asking me to give you my personal data and subcribe to some spammy emails?
PowerToys Run is fantastic as an app launcher. Not quite as good as Alfred on MacOS but then nothing is. There's a bunch of similar apps for Windows (I used to use Hain) but none ever worked quite right for me, PowerToys Run does though. FancyZones is awfully nice too for just putting a window somewhere at a reasonable size and location. As other folks have noted SysInternals is another similar rogue Windows product…
I use Launchy in Windows, and Ulauncher for Linux. They're both as good and extendable as Alfred.
I opened the site in a new tab, and when i opened the tab, there was a popup asking me for my first and last name and an email address to sign-up (for something?) + of course a captcha. I never visited your webpage before, I didn't even get to read the article, why the hell are you asking me to give you my personal data and subcribe to some spammy emails?
> It was first introduced for Windows 95, I had no idea it was there for that long! Honestly, from their perspective it probably makes sense to keep it separate from the main OS if they like keeping it open source.
[1]http://misweb.cbi.msstate.edu/~rpearson/tips/tweakui.html
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The real question is why has Apple not implemented snapping behavior after ~10 years of it being in windows? But yeah, you can achieve something similar with tooling for sure.
That’s a completely fair question, I’m just curious why the parent comment required a bunch of tools.
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Any video will do. I hear having an open powerpoint presentation will also keep a device awake. Presumably Microsoft office is a mandatory install on such dystopian environments.
Ah didn’t know about PowerPoint. > dystopian environments Some places block streaming purely because it clogs the VPNs if they route everything through the in house infra Depends on how locked down the security setup is. The more sensitive the info the worse it is
But they didn't lock out YouTube, because sometimes YouTube had a business purpose. So people just switched to YouTube for listening to music, which used even more bandwidth. In protest of the ridiculousness of the no-music-streaming policy, some people even forced their YouTube to stream in 4K even when they had a 1080p monitor.
The blocking of music streaming was lifted within a couple months.
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Support costs. They don't help enough people to justify the problems that would pop up. The people who download Power Toys can probably take care of themselves.
support costs for a trillion dollar company, sure if they can't do it, i know lot of people who would do it for the same salary they are getting over there at MSFT lazy culture, how long it took them to add tabs to explorer? hmm
My uncle works tech support for a major ISP. He gets at least a couple calls a day from people thinking they need to call him because their Windows PC won't turn on or some other non-Internet related issue.
And then there's the sheer number of trivial calls. Do you know how many people call Amazon because they forgot their password, rather than just using the password reset function? Or how many people call their bank to find their balance rather than checking the website? And of course, these people demand to talk to a human.
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Listary is pretty much the best I've encounter on Windows. Fuzzy search for all applications & files with dynamic ranking of results based on usage habit + possible customization with search engines. When I'm on a laptop of someone else, Listary is the one that I miss so much.
Fair warning to everyone reading this. Listary is now effectively abandonware.
Sorry to disappear for almost three years and then reappear in this way. I have so many feelings to share with Listary and especially with you, the users who have always been with Listary for the past few years. [...]
In the future, Listary will continue to focus on keeping files/applications at your fingertips and providing you with an extreme user experience.
A brand-new vision, a brand-new product, and a brand-new journey. A better Listary, hope you will like it again
-- https://discussion.listary.com/t/a-letter-to-listary-users/7... (which is actually an automated translation of the original Chinese https://discussion.listary.com/t/listary/7237)