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Showing dialogs is not a solution. Various studies have already shown users click any dialog which pops up without actually reading the dialog.

Loads of browsers do download automatically. Making things inconvenient and delegating security decisions to the user isn't good enough. Make it convenient and secure!

PS/Edit: Btw, under Windows 10 loads of things are indexed. It makes things very convenient. You use your pc like Google. Instead of knowing exactly where things are you just "Google" for it. With that I mean it has a good working search that's also really quick in giving accurate results.

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>Showing dialogs is not a solution. Various studies have already shown users click any dialog which pops up without actually reading the dialog.

I can't count the number of times that I was in the middle of writing a sentence, a dialog showed up, I accidentally pressed space bar and I was left wondering WTF just happened.

'locate' is 35 years old. And has been available on linux desktops since 1991. Just saying.

Locate doesn't do what Windows 10 does with search (locate just does filenames). Plus it's slower than Windows 10 nor does it give the most relevant results first.

Windows 10 experience: you press start then type in a few letters and you already get good relevant results. This completely different from locate!

Hasn't it been replaced by slocate, mlocate, tlocate or another variant since ?

Yes, and there were a few implementations from different groups, as you would expect. I'm typing this on a current Arch and locate, mlocate and slocate are all available from the mlocate package.

They are most likely symlinks to mlocate

I doubt very much my Slackware 2.0 copy had locate.

I've used locate ever since I used Linux, my first distro was Slackware downloaded to oh so many stiffies (the hard plastic successor to floppies) circa 1994, I certainly won't die in a ditch insisting it was in there but I would be very surprised if it wasn't.

I'll put in somewhere in the middle of my "mildly interesting to maybe know" research list.

Indexing for search - it depends upon what you use your computer for. Some of us want to do stuff with our processors and memory and get very annoyed when the OS decides to use resources we were hoping would be used for our programs...

Hello Gnome...

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