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I disabled all but applications and the calculator, because that\u2019s all I use Spotlight for, and it still can\u2019t find some apps that are in /Applications. Sometimes it\u2019s some apps, sometimes it\u2019s everything, and after rebooting it\u2019ll sometimes reindex. No idea what\u2019s going on, but today might be the day I install Qui", "context": "macOS user", "use_case": "app launcher", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bugs Apple Loves"}, {"id": 745429937, "item_id": 46589371, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589371", "by": "evanjrowley", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I was a Mac OS X \"power user\" enjoying Quicksilver[0][1] on Snow Leopard", "excerpt": "Glad to see someone was inspired to do this! I miss the Windows 8 UI - one of my unpopular opinions, which I shall justify here. I never personally owned a Windows 8 computer, but I used some at work. I logged in to Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 on a daily bases for several years - these had the same type of start menu. Prior to this experience on Windows, I was a Mac OS X \"power user\" enjoying Quicksilver[0][1] on", "context": "former Mac OS X power user", "use_case": "app launcher", "switched_from": "", "story": "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"}, {"id": 739416865, "item_id": 46213554, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46213554", "by": "tptacek", "date": "2025-12-09", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "all the way back into the early aughts, I was using Quicksilver.app, which does the same thing", "excerpt": "I'm never going to use a tiling window manager, but I also never touch Mission Control (or Spotlight). I use Alfred.app to call things up; before Alfred.app, all the way back into the early aughts, I was using Quicksilver.app, which does the same thing. 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