Yes, good addition to my comment, the first thing I do after a new install is also disabling most of the plugins, since there a LOT.

Krunner in KDE Plasma. Fast, customisable and reliable.

Yeah, keep paying ransom to a company that does not even manage to get the basic security right, it’s your money after all. I’m happy without Microsoft and with an OS that works and works for me, not some greedy CEO.

Sorry, but no. 300 USD for an OS is absolutely absurd. Just to be “on the safer side” from MS and its shitty tactics?

“Recall won’t be coming to enterprise or server and if it does, it will be disablable”

Sweet summer child, I pity you. How anyone can still have any trust in MS is beyond me, but so be it.

Yep, because there’s always the same conclusion there: reinstall Windows.

Ah yes, Windows, where you buy a licence for around 100€, still get ads (WTF) and bloatware you cannot get rid of, still are the beta tester for their shitty software, because they fired their QA department. That’s on top of a shitty OS that still does not allow multiple users being logged in simultaneously (only in Windows server) and AI shit baked in alongside spying tools (Recall is coming back soon).

I could go on…

I’m using https://www.musicbutler.io/ works great and is reliable.