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[Varriount]

This is something that's always puzzled me - why is searching in Windows always so gosh darn slow? You'd think with an entire background service dedicated to file indexing, I'd be able to quickly find files in a directory tree with the word "foo" in their file name or contents, but even with a modern SSD it still takes at least a minute on any remotely populated directory.

[xtracto → Varriount]

File search in graphical Linux is terrible as well.

Just the other day i was trying to do sone simple file search in Mint and oh god the GUI search function is completely useless. I had to jump around installing 3 "file search" programs, none of them really worked and at the end I settled with some console bash magic. ... its 2023 people.

[anthk → xtracto]

With Linux the best option it's to use recoll to create a database and a GUI to search into your documents.

[dzonga → xtracto]

yep on linux have to use catfish file search

[hulitu → xtracto]

Locate works great.

[Jenda_ → hulitu]

Locate is for file names, not file contents.

[deepspace → Jenda_]

ripgrep for contents

[pseudalopex → deepspace]

ripgrep is fast for what it is. But indexes are faster.

[Jenda_ → pseudalopex]

Additionally, I would expect indexing to extract text contents from non-plain-text formats. (such as Recoll does)

[xtracto → hulitu]

How's its GUI? you know, because I was talking about GUI based file searching.

[AuryGlenz → Varriount]

It blows my mind that third party applications are better at search than the freaking OS.

[JohnFen → AuryGlenz]

And that it's not only been that way for a lot of years, but it's getting worse with time. It's utterly baffling to me.

[SturgeonsLaw → Varriount]

Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools because they have perfected Windows search and it boggles my mind that Microsoft can't recreate that.

[velox_neb → SturgeonsLaw]

> Microsoft should just buy Everything off Voidtools

Don't give them ideas, they'd find some way to ruin it.

[MenhirMike → velox_neb]

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