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Oh! Here is terminal for you
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To play devil's advocate, only people unfamiliar with Windows would look for a terminal that way.
I disagree. Being able to slap the windows key and type the name of the program I'm looking for is one of my favorite features of both Gnome and KDE and I wish Windows worked similarly.
plus windows is supposed to work just like that.
before windows 10 came around at least.
Both Gnome and KDE also include a web search. And just like on Linux, you can disable it in Windows Settings.
Is it on be default? Because if so I'm glad I don't use that garbage.
On KDE, it's just one of the suggestions, I believe, that you could search this term on the web. If you trigger that suggestion, it then opens the web browser to do the search.
As such, searching "terminal" wouldn't yield a suggestion from a web result that matches, but I'm pretty sure applications are prioritized above other results either way.
That's good to hear. It continuously amazes me how often search bars in some pieces of software manage to be worse than ctrl-f in a plaintext document.
yes but your distro may have it disabled in their default.
It does.... (Or did I've not used 25H2). But given the app starts with a w you can see the issue.
In gnome you can search for any word of a program name and it will appear in the search result
In KDE I type in "tor" and "factorio" appears above "tor browser"
It shows up as "Terminal" in the search results, so I imagine that's what it matches against, even if it is colloquially referred to as "Windows Terminal"...
And? Why shouldn't I expect to be able to find essential OS tools and settings by using the OS search?
It shows it to you... Just not first option. The app is actually called Windows Terminal, which is why you get it by typing wt.
That's part of the issue: in the picture is written "Terminal", so I expect to find it if I search Terminal. I don't care what is the real name under the hood, I'm searching something for the name you have given me.
You’re not wrong but there’s something very funny about a gaggle of Linux evangelists complaining about it not being obvious what aliases to type to open something
I understand them: I am an old Linux user, used to the command line. In there, once upon a time, a command has only on way to be called, and that way was the name under which the command was known and distributed. Aliases were a personal customization made by the user for his own amusement. I am still under the assumption that if a program is presented to you as X, then X is the command to type to run said program. But I understand this is now not as obvious, even in the Linux world.
One of the hard problems I still have today in Linux is if I'm having trouble with software and need to know what it is actually called, sometimes that is difficult. Like how am I supposed to know the installer is called calamares or the text editor is called leafpad when the OS calls them "installer" and "text editor"
Exactly, that is IMHO a not-so-sane default that some application launcher adopts. Thankfully you can switch to a more "normal" behavior, it's a flag somewhere in the configuration menus for the application launcher, at least in KDE and in XFCE
This is how I do it. When I forget that I have it pinned on the taskbar or don't want to use the mouse. I don't need it enough on windows to remember the keyboard shortcut.
Win+R?
Win+X. The most simple hotkey in windows after the Windows key itself.
Terminal the movie seems really obscure
The Tom Hanks one was really good.