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by Mikeb85 1453 days ago
> Unity additionally had their search feature that doubled as a run box which was awesome. Tap meta and type the application name and hit enter.

Gnome Shell does the same thing...

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Which is a feature introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger" nearly 20 years ago, under the name Spotlight, and now implemented in Windows Vista and almost every OS or desktop since then.
...as does KDE Plasma with Krunner: https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Krunner
and FVWM when you asign a key combination to open an xterm.
That is not even similar. Come on, play fair.