> How is search better on Linux? KDE's Baloo is worse than Windows Search; it's an unending trainwreck of failing to index files (whether names or contents) on some computers and going stale on other computers. Maybe GNOME's file indexing is better, I'm not sure.
I use Gnome and it works well. I'd say it's how I expect a search to work, at least.
I think search could be even better with ways to index other informations. For example, search into the metadata of audio files. My dream is to have something as good as Google in its prime, but for my own files. I'm still thinking on how to reduce the need for the user to produce metadata. For now, the "best" we can usually do is try to give files descriptive names and then search for it, which is good but still very limited to how the web works for example.
> Do you use the (non-index-based) find and grep CLI commands? In that case you can install them on Windows too, or install fd/rg on both Windows and Linux.
There are also tools to replace the search on Windows, but most people will never install those. My comment was more general, about how lots of people have been trained to not rely on search because the basic search in their files is broken. Maybe a consequence of this is that people have a resistance to search, which would explain why so many of them have trouble using a search engine by themselves. It's also a waste of human time, an enormous one.
I use Gnome and it works well. I'd say it's how I expect a search to work, at least.
I think search could be even better with ways to index other informations. For example, search into the metadata of audio files. My dream is to have something as good as Google in its prime, but for my own files. I'm still thinking on how to reduce the need for the user to produce metadata. For now, the "best" we can usually do is try to give files descriptive names and then search for it, which is good but still very limited to how the web works for example.
> Do you use the (non-index-based) find and grep CLI commands? In that case you can install them on Windows too, or install fd/rg on both Windows and Linux.
There are also tools to replace the search on Windows, but most people will never install those. My comment was more general, about how lots of people have been trained to not rely on search because the basic search in their files is broken. Maybe a consequence of this is that people have a resistance to search, which would explain why so many of them have trouble using a search engine by themselves. It's also a waste of human time, an enormous one.