I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by drdec on Saturday January 10, 2026 @03:43PM (#46569737)

To me, the killer feature of Unity was the searchable application menus. Wish that was still a thing

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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by fao_ on Saturday January 10, 2026 @04:08PM (#46569930)

KDE supports this! It's called the "global menu", and has search built in. GTK app support is iffy, though

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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by dualogy on Saturday January 10, 2026 @04:20PM (#46570029)

Since I found with searchable app menus / start menus that I don't ever navigate through menus but just start typing, I ditched the menu entirely and have KRunner bound to the Win key. Not only is it fine with any desktop app GTK or not (that packagers have ensured will install with its FreeDesktop metadata file or some such), it supports all the enabled KDE Search plugins. So I don't ever open a calc app again, either..

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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by xenonite on Saturday January 10, 2026 @06:44PM (#46571141)

Sorry but no, the parent commenters looked for a global menu within an application (File -> Open, File -> Save, etc.)

by the way, on macOS the global menu is searchable, too. Shortcut is Command+Shift+/

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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by fainpul on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:10AM (#46575030)

The shortcut doesn't work for me. But you can find the search in the Help menu.

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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by fao_ on Sunday January 11, 2026 @07:17PM (#46582044)

> Sorry but no, the parent commenters looked for a global menu within an application (File -> Open, File -> Save, etc.)

KDE has such a feature, and yes "Global Menu" is the term for the application menu being pulled into system dock

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_reque...

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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by Qem on Saturday January 10, 2026 @08:27PM (#46571854)

In Ubuntu MATE there's a mode that sort of emulates Unity.

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Re:I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great by blauditore on Monday January 12, 2026 @03:27PM (#46593825)

Same here! Never found a replacement for it in Gnome Shell.

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