Another feature that I am missing from Windows is if I right click on an application on the taskbar, then I would get a list of recently accessed files, for example if I right click on notepad then I would get something like this:
IINM KDE could do that. Otherwise I’m glad Linux doesn’t support such a thing. If you want such memory-consuming and performance-sapping abilities, please go back to Windows.
On Windows10 I had to disable this ability because it was driving me crazy and it caused the system to start slowly and programs to start slowly, and it was steadily taking a lot of space from my internal SSD. A short time ago I had to deal with a serious issue with the KDE search function because Baloo was gobbling a lot of memory and ended up creating a 2GB file on the disk of its results. Sorry but it’s something I don’t prefer.
Originally my whole post was going to be: “EEK Windows screenshots, please get it away! (thursts cross forward)”
How on Earth is this feature “performance-snapping”?
Out of all the things Windows 10 does, you blame this recent files feature to be a hog on the system? Not the telemetry data collection process Microsoft does, not the heavily bloated DE Windows uses, not the constant built in AV microsoft has, its the “recent files feature” that is a huge bloat, how is this possible?
KDE is the most performant big desktop in existence, the only way to get better performance is to use something super minimalist, like dwm. Apart from Baloo, Baloo sucks, but that is off-topic…
Virtually every feature is performance sapping to various degrees. It is the accumulation of all these little bits of performance sapping elements that cause “bloat”.
Have you even installed any Linux to find out how things are? Have you been like me going with at least one distro for 5-6 months on a very slow internal HDD which is not SSD, and how any Linux steadily bogs down on performance like Windows does? This is regardless of things that could be avoided. But then someone else wants to keep adding to how the OS could dump on itself.
I’m done helping anybody on this forum. I’ve had enough. I don’t like how a couple of topics were closed that I wanted to post in, because you guys want to joke around sometimes or you want to take things seriously. This is definite. Bye EndeavourOS forums.
That may be true, however out of all the things, why did @mnrvovrfc feel that this particular feature is a huge hog to the system? On Windows 7 when this feature was introduced, I find Windows 7 to be even lighter than the vast majority of Linux distros today while having that feature so I doubt that that particular feature really adds much bloat to anything at all.
Yeah it doesn’t bog down your system as much as Windows does I admit that.
We are talking about one minor small feature. On Windows 7 I found the OS to be much faster and more responsive than Windows 10. As mentioned before out of all the things Windows 10 does, why only go for that one particular feature. You may not like that feature but I do, and I heavily depend on those features Windows has provided me with. That is why I am asking if there is something similar on Linux.
How were we “joking” around? I am trying to be direct with you.
At some point, why are you even using Linux? You seem very very set on making Linux into Windows since you like so much about Windows and it has all of these must have features. . .
It really begs the question, why not just use Windows? No one will do Windows better than Microsoft.