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Which software was ahead of its time? (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by Windows94@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Avafind.

Searching for almost anything was so much easy. Such a powerful tool that disappeared. Its performance 20 years ago was better than Finder is today. At least from my experience.

[–] fatboy93@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you're on windows, Everything by Void tools is the best at indexing and searching.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I switched to Linux and I desperately miss Everything. It was fucking instant.

[–] stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure there are similar tools on Linux. When I install KDE Plasma, I always disable baloo indexer because I don't need it, but I think it does something like Everything.

[–] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

If you're running your Linux install from an ssd, you could probably just leave it enabled. Ssd's are really, really fast at reads and indexing, vs mechanical hard drives, it doesn't really add much overhead to an ssd.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

FSearch does the same thing, but it's kinda dodgy.

[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Its performance 20 years ago was better than Finder is today

This is the case for a lot of software, and it drives me crazy. We used to have slow, relatively unreliable hard drives, single core processors, and significantly slower RAM, and yet some things feel slower today than they did 20 years ago. Try Windows 98 on an old PC (or a VM with a single throttled core) and compare it to any modern Windows OS. Try Visual Basic 6 and compare the startup and build speeds to any modern IDE.

It feels like some software has been getting slower more quickly than hardware has been getting faster...

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 3 points 10 months ago

Developers went like: "it's free real estate"