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Comment by forgotmypw17 | Hacker News Reader

When I still used Windows, my favorite app launcher was voidtools Everything

It's one of the reasons I stay on Windows. I haven't found a Linux tool that works as well for file indexing.

I've made do with

    find ~ > ~/index/home.txt ; find / > ~/index/root.txt

So, you never try any Linux in 20 years ? Linux launchers had better file indexing in any metric before that Windows did it.

Nothing beats Everything. Seriously.

When I changed to Linux 6 years ago I have to be more mindful of where I put my files, because on Windows Everything works extremely well.

(I am talking about 5M+ files on disk)

I'm always mindful about where I put my files, whatever the operating system.

It can be hard for Linux fans to admit when anything on Windows is better, but Voidtools's Everything is one. I've used (and still use) most file indexing and search tools in Linux, and Everything is just categorically better. Aside from the search being just straight up faster, the UI being faster, and the setup and configuration being absolutely painless, the killer app of Everything is that because of the way NTFS has a service announcing file changes any new/deleted/modify file is instantly re-indexed, across any disk, whereas inotify in Linux has many, many limitations in that regard.

While I've got the conch another thing that Windows does much better than Linux is Remote Desktop access.

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