I cannot explain how much I do not want to see this green dot and “New!” text in my application launcher. Rather than be a passionate contributor like you, I have regrettably become a slave to the Big Tech industry - But one thing I can provide is insight into why operating systems like iOS and Windows have this noise: Impact driven development People need to justify their work on a continuous basis, with the upside of promotions and downside of layoffs. They add the most useless feature...
  • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    23 days ago

    Windows has this “feature”, where is the setting?

    I assume youre talking about W11?

    Because the “Show recently added apps” setting is third option in the start menu settings on W10.

    • deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de
      7·
      23 days ago

      The main issue is UX imo. On Windows 11, it’s “5 clicks”, but you have to open the settings app and find the setting two submenus deep. On KDE, it’s right click > configure application launcher > toggle setting > apply.

      • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        22 days ago

        Yeah, for some reason they’ve seemed to made it harder to find the actual start menu settings instead of more generic taskbar settings. So that’s a fair point.