Spotlight search is infinitely more useful than the Windows 10+ start menu. 99% of the time I'm just using it to open an app or a recent document/download.

In Windows, if I hit [Win], type "fusion" (to open Fusion 360, an app in the "Start Menu" folder, for what that's worth nowadays), there's a 70% chance it will do a Bing search for "fusion".

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fainpul an hour ago | parent | next [-]

When I open Spotlight and type "fusion", it selects "Remove Autodesk Fusion.app".

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godelski 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Just because something else is worse drones mean the other thing is good

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Hackbraten 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Your autocorrect just wasted a full minute of my life (2s for re-reading, 8s for thinking about it, and 50s for responding.)

	▲	godelski 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You can thank Apple for that. I even have autocorrect turned off yet it still insists on doing it... Most annoyingly it will change the word previous to the one I'm typing...

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crooked-v 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's more useful until it spontaneously stops working, at which point you're stuck until and unless it spontaneously decides to work again.

	▲	matwood 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Spotlight works great for me but the index can occasionally become corrupted. There’s a set of commands you can run to force a rebuild if you’re having issues. I’ve had to do this a few times over the years. This is another place where it’d be nice if Apple had a GUI to manage things like this.
	▲	kfarr 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		My favorite is how it’ll just forget which apps are installed. A list of like 30 items. If you had one job spotlight, it’s this

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Spivak 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I forget what combination of settings does it but my Windows start menu now only searches the two start menu folders. It's perfect, completely deterministic, instant.

Trying to turn the app launcher into the magic "accio <anything>" bar was a huge mistake. You can have a second UI element for search, I promise it won't scare me.