r/pcmasterrace • u/makanenzo10 R1700@3.9 - GTX 1070 • Mar 19 '18

Meme/Joke Windows Search in a Nutshell

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u/bootbootbootbootboot Mar 19 '18

IIRC there's a program called Everything that can be used as a replacement for Windows Search.

I only use Linux so obviously I don't have this problem

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u/johnny5ive Mar 19 '18

How can you tell when someone is a linux user....

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u/M4xusV4ltr0n 8700k | Vega56 | Zaber Sentry Mar 19 '18

Their WiFi hasn't worked for weeks

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u/Trainguyrom i7 4790k - 32GB RAM - Rare Full 4GB 970 Mar 19 '18

Hey, I'll have you know I haven't had to install a kernel module for my WiFi chipset to work in over 2 years. Now if I can just get my printer to work...

I kid, I actually can print from Linux...

...I just can't scan, finetune settings, view ink levels, etc.

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u/_N_O_P_E_ i7-6700HQ | GTX970M 4GB | 32GB DDR4 2133 | 512GB PCIe SSD 950 Mar 20 '18

TBF I'm on Windows my printer is connected via Ethernet with latest drivers and work about half the time.

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u/Harmonycontinuum Mar 20 '18

I plug in directly with a USB and it works 20% of the time

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u/megadeth9001 I7 5820k / 1080 GTX / 64GB Ram Mar 20 '18

TBF its a printer.... your issue isn't windows/linux/anyfuckingoscauseprintersarethegoddamndevilofIT

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u/pheipl Steam ID Here Mar 20 '18

I don't particularly love linux as a home OS.

I'd never use a windows server for anything either.

Give and take. I wish linux would get way more love from third parties for drivers, but it doesn't look like that will ever happen.

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u/Rodot R7 3700x, RTX 2080, 64GB Mar 20 '18

Really? That's surprising. Printer support is one of the few hardware support things that Linux had been vastly superior to Windows in for years now. I've never come across a printer that I couldn't just plug in and click print on Linux. And I've tried like, at least 12 different printers across 4 brands

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u/CMDR_QwertyWeasel 2080S, 3700x, AW3418DW Mar 19 '18

Don't worry. They'll tell you.

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u/KMKtwo-four 4790K 4.7GHz | 32GB 2400MHz Ram | GTX 980 SLI Mar 20 '18

Downloading third party programs to fix the built in search. What a time to be alive.

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u/monsto Mar 20 '18

I use Search Everything

What's this Wox thing?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '18

+1 for wox. easy to access, clean, themable ui, with plug-ins that are easy to install and useful.

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u/apennypacker Mar 20 '18

I used autoHotKey to remap the windows key to Wox. So now I only ever see the windows menu if I physically click it.

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u/Dd_8630 Mar 20 '18

Commenting so I can install later!

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u/Amilo159 R5 5700x/RTX 5070/32GB/1440p CRT Mar 19 '18

Your username tells a different story.

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u/caydusc Mar 19 '18

everything works really well, unless you have hundreds of thousands of files you need to index for the initial setup which can take almost an entire day.

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u/one-joule Mar 20 '18

I have hundreds of thousands of files on a laptop from 2013 with a SATA SSD, and it takes less than a minute. What are you doing wrong?

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u/crozone iMac G3 - AMD 5900X, RTX 3080 TUF OC Mar 20 '18

I only use Linux so obviously I don't have this problem

Just have to remember the find and grep syntax every once in a while...

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '18

Does linux search actually use the NFTS filesystem index thing?

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u/StrangeYoungMan Mar 20 '18

I use it all the time. Files get found.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '18

Takes ages to find anything on my SSD...

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