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Is everybody really out there doing arithmetic in their start menu search bar? Calc.exe is a click or hotkey away.
Calc.exe is a click or hotkey away.
The Start Menu is already there, no hotkey setup required. Plus, I can close it with a single key too. It's simply more convenient.
If you say so. I think having to wait for the latency of the web search to come back would drive me up the wall if I tried your method.
Win+number row are hotkeys for your taskbar favorites. No explicit setup is required other than having your taskbar favorites ordered how you want them. Pressing the hotkey will open the program if it's closed, focus the program if it's in the background, or minimize the program if it's focused.
I mean technically I do that, but mine doesn't do a web search (linux) so it's not equivalent anyway. It is very convenient tho
There isn't any noticeable latency. I always assumed they did that part locally tbh.
I mean no disrespect, but I have my doubts.
I'll measure it next time I'm at my desk- on a wired gigabit connection it felt like about 80-100ms
Of course, results probably vary a bit based on how far away the closest Bing server is (or whatever is handling the request)
To this day, I still launch the calculator with win+R then "calc" enter.
Basically muscle memory at this point
For me it's win "calc" enter.
This is also a quick and easy option tbh
Neither option is convenient for me. So I just have a calculator next to me just in case.
...yes? The spotlight/quick search tool is stupid useful. Everything is just a quick alt-space and a type away
I've been using Synapse on Linux for years and Windows powertoys is way better than this nonsense (which is super confusing because that's also an official Microsoft programme. Why do they have a superior version of their search that you have to seperately download?)
It's really easy for one offs.
pin calc to taskbar. it's a click away and makes more sense than searching for an arithmetic answer.
powertoys (by microsoft) also let`s you use a custom shortcut to open a bar and search in. Pretty useful and quick.
I prefer to use my phone, shout out Calculator++ https://f-droid.org/packages/org.solovyev.android.calculator/
Since I pretty much always have a browser open I just use the search bar to do it unless I know I'm doing multiple operations, then it's off to the pinned calculator shortcut
Personally I use ueli for everything
That looks very very similar to PowerToys Run, I wonder if they're related?