Once upon a time, back in the Vista days, I was looking for a file. I knew the name of the file, and I typed it into the brand new Search Pane. I waited, and waited, and waited... Until I decided to run something along the lines of `tree / > files.txt`. The tree command completed, I opened the result in Notepad, and found my file in no time, meanwhile the Search Pane was still searching. I don't have a Windows around to run the experiment in 2022, so I ask: Has Search not improved since the Vista days?
Using "dir" on the Windows command line can do a simple search. It is on every Windows machine and easy to use. It is not the fastest but it can be useful. Amazing how few people know how to use it. Just type "help dir" from the Windows command line.
I'm looking for a working alternative to Albert or Rofi in Windows. It seems there are several dead projects like Cerebro that integrate with tools like Everything.<p>Crucially, it must be extensible so I can add domain specific plugins. Ideally I'd be able to reuse code between Windows and Linux, but I don't see any cross platform ones, so maybe it'll need shims.
Why doesn't Microsoft do this themselves? They've larded up Windows with tons of worthless crap, so clearly they have a lot of time of their hands. Why not give the user something useful for once, something that OS X users have had for decades?<p>Is the company full of morons, or do they just not see what's in it for them? That is, why bother helping the user if it won't necessarily make them $$$?<p>Sad as they are, I find these little details fascinating. They really show how unimaginative and short-term oriented giant public tech companies often are.<p>Apple ruining the MBP in 2016, only to walk back pretty much everything they did 6 years later, is another great example.