The closest I can find is mlocate but it does not have a GUI but more importantly it does not index my Windows or NTFS drives.
Would appreciate any suggestions if someone knows something like 'everything' for Ubuntu.
From the linux command-line, I like fzf ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ), that you can instruct to use the faster fd ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#environment-variables ). Fzf even offers keybindings for your shell. For example, it binds Alt+C to fuzzy-finding a directory, and Enter cds to it ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf#key-bindings-for-command-lin... ).
Fzf is great for other things too; here is a fish function to bing Alt+G to fuzzy-pick a Git branch and jump to it:
function fish_user_key_bindings
bind \eg 'test -d .git; or git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint'
bind \eG 'test -d .git; or git rev-parse --git-dir > /dev/null 2>&1; and git checkout (string trim -- (git branch --all | fzf)); and commandline -f repaint'
endI just learned how to mount all my Windows drive under /mnt using (using the `disks` software), so hopefully this should index those files too.
Also for gnome there is tracker which does search and indexing built into the system. I think by default its set for minimal use but it can be configured by the settings/search panel to index many locations. I haven't played with is much recently though.
Just wondering since Linux knows about these drives but doesn't mount them automatically at startup.. so if this is out of a reason or just convention?
Hmm.. I seem to remember creating an excel file for this client a while back.. open Everything -> filter client.xlsx .. boom. Or maybe I didn't name it properly, at all? Well still just a simple '*.xlsx' and sort by date, I can generally find anything this way. As long as you let Everything open on windows startup, it will be instant after use.
For general file search at ludicious speeds like Everything does on windows its pretty good :)
I'm the author of plocate. Since version 1.1.0, plocate no longer depends on mlocate for building its database, but is a full replacement.