I actually find comments like yours far more obnoxious than level-headed criticism. This communities purpose is not to be a marketing team for whoever wants to post here. Criticism is much more edifying than blind support.
The problem I see in this community is that much of the time, many aren't providing criticism. If it were only criticism, I'd even agree. The truth is that the so called "criticism" is really armchair quarterbacking most of the time.
I wish you and some other Hn'ers would stop hating on armchairs.
Some of the comments in this thread are the exact opposite thing I would expect from this community and it is shameful. It's unfortunate that the top comment is one of these which could steer some people away from reading further. As many others in this thread have pointed out, Cerebro is a pretty cool app that borrows from some core OS functionality and improves on it. Is its design 100% perfect? Maybe not. However,…
While it's cool if the dev does it as a side project I think that the main reason people are negative is because it doesn't bring anything new as many similar tools exist:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13737052
And the only difference it has is being much heavier because it's electron.
Related: For fast filesystem search on Windows (NTFS) I cannot recommend enough Everything [0]. Instant search through all drives. This app really shines. Under 1 Mb install size, blazing fast interface (can be bound to global hotkey), command line interface, optional HTTP interface, small memory footprint (depends on the size of indices). Really, if you haven't seen it, check it out. It basically connects to the NTF…
There's also Wox [0], which provides a nicer UI/UX over top of Everything. Also has some interesting plugins.
Related: For fast filesystem search on Windows (NTFS) I cannot recommend enough Everything [0]. Instant search through all drives. This app really shines. Under 1 Mb install size, blazing fast interface (can be bound to global hotkey), command line interface, optional HTTP interface, small memory footprint (depends on the size of indices). Really, if you haven't seen it, check it out. It basically connects to the NTF…
This is the only tool I miss since I shifted from Windows to Linux almost a decade back. If you're on Windows, go install it right now.
I use locate for now, but I'm still to find something that does it as well.
Related: For fast filesystem search on Windows (NTFS) I cannot recommend enough Everything [0]. Instant search through all drives. This app really shines. Under 1 Mb install size, blazing fast interface (can be bound to global hotkey), command line interface, optional HTTP interface, small memory footprint (depends on the size of indices). Really, if you haven't seen it, check it out. It basically connects to the NTF…
This is the only tool I miss since I shifted from Windows to Linux almost a decade back. If you're on Windows, go install it right now. I use locate for now, but I'm still to find something that does it as well.
Find anything better than Gnome-Do for it on Linux?
This is the only tool I miss since I shifted from Windows to Linux almost a decade back. If you're on Windows, go install it right now. I use locate for now, but I'm still to find something that does it as well.
Find anything better than Gnome-Do for it on Linux?
Nopes, locate is where I am at (after trying gnome-do for a while)
Related: For fast filesystem search on Windows (NTFS) I cannot recommend enough Everything [0]. Instant search through all drives. This app really shines. Under 1 Mb install size, blazing fast interface (can be bound to global hotkey), command line interface, optional HTTP interface, small memory footprint (depends on the size of indices). Really, if you haven't seen it, check it out. It basically connects to the NTF…
There's also Wox [0], which provides a nicer UI/UX over top of Everything. Also has some interesting plugins. [0] http://www.getwox.com/
I've tried Wox and other launchers that include Everything several times and I always go back to having a launcher for, well, launching and using Everything for searching. For me the compact design of a launcher is not well suited to show a couple of file search results. But of course that also depends on what files you usually search for, how many results there will be and what you do with them. If, for example, you often search for documents it's fine. But I usually search for source code files and what not and there it's different.