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[–] the_artic_one 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Voidtools "Everything" is how we mimic a fraction of your power thank-you-very-much.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are literally dozens of us Everything users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

please elaborate what this is about?

[–] derpgon 8 points 5 months ago

It is a file search engine that replaces your regular earth in Windows.

https://www.voidtools.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

The everything search engine is flexible and fully indexed file search engine that you can use to find any file anywhere on your network or local storage, instantly, and only a little bit slower than instantly on a very slow old machine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's what Windows search could have been. I don't know what kind of black magic they've got under the hood there but I think it's really just indexing and watching the file system for changes so that it can update the index in real time. This obviously doesn't work for a network resources that change frequently but still, it's very nice when you don't know where the hell anything is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Everything is still far superior than plasma search and I can't imagine that gnome/other DEs get close to it neither. Fsearch is close but it needs to do a complete resacn every time you use it instead of scanning in the background like everything