> Tracker is installed by default
And is a dependency of Nautilus – cannot remove tracker but keep Nautilus :-(
And is a dependency of Nautilus – cannot remove tracker but keep Nautilus :-(
"Tracker is installed by default with Ubuntu 19.04. Tracker is a filesystem indexer, metadata storage system and search tool"
So no real privacy issue here or anything. But load on the system may be annoying. Boloo should be the KDE equivalent and I don't like it.
PS: Yes, this stuff can be annoying: " It wasn't installed by default until now due to performance concerns, but those issues seem to have been resolved."
Even more annoying if by "solved" they mean "everybody has SSDs now so we don't care". Windows 10 does that and it can become extremely painful to use on old spinning disks. I've seen machines where average seek times go over 1 second because Windows won't leave the damn disk alone after a few updates.
For finding stuff I use recoll. Not sure if baloo has also other uses.
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker/
Tracker is GNOME's analogue to Spotlight (from macOS/iOS) and Windows Search.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204014
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/search/wind...
one does not need to _remove_ software to make sure it's not impacting you.
I'm actually excited to try the new version.
I use recoll and it has literally saved my hours of work.
apt-get install recoll