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Really? Windows isn't exactly known for the quality of it's search. It becoming consistently worse with every Windows version has been a meme for at more than a
by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Really? Windows isn't exactly known for the quality of it's search. It becoming consistently worse with every Windows version has been a meme for at more than a decade.
- eviks 1y agoBut Windows is know for a lot of productivity apps other platforms lack. I meant the Everything file search app (doesn't exist on Linux/Mac), not the default Windows search
- nine_k 1y ago> "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows. Well, on Linux I have `locate` and `fd` which work really well, doing that very thing, and `ripgrep` does even more. I heard something built-in is also shipped with macOS, it's called something like "Spotlight". OTOH MS Excel for Windows is one and only, the macOS version barely holds a candle to it, and analogs are even further away.
- eviks 1y ago"that very thing" was instant and anywhere (not your irrelevant generic description), which your suggested tools can't do. You're just content with a poor cli substitute.
- _Algernon_ 1y agoThere are also GUIs for this, though I haven't compared the two directly: eg. https://www.recoll.org/ https://www.recoll.org/