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The amount of applications on the average consumer's laptop is such a tiny space to search over that there really is no excuse for this being anything other tha
by lelandfe 4mo ago
The amount of applications on the average consumer's laptop is such a tiny space to search over that there really is no excuse for this being anything other than instant.
iOS and macOS suffer this too, it's like I open search and the operating system awakes from a hangover and makes sure it's wearing pants first
- chris_wot 4mo agoiOS and macOS aren't even close to the awfulness of search on Windows.
- tonyedgecombe 4mo agoAlthough they have just rewritten it so there must have been some problems with it.
- Uzazo 4mo agoTip: Spotlight searches through all data and can be slow, but there's a separate App Library search that only searches the app names and it's instant.
- lelandfe 4mo agoOne of the first things I do on any Mac device is to disable Spotlight, install and bind Alfred to Cmd-Space, and then change Finder's preferences so that Cmd-F searches the current directory.