Windows 11 build 26300.8697 hides a toggle to remove Bing from Search. We tested it hands-on: faster results, cleaner UI, local files first.
  • CheesyFoxEnglish
    26·
    2 个月前

    is it ripgrep level of “crazy fast” tho?

    • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      2 个月前

      It’s far faster. Ripgrep has to search every file exhaustively at query time. Windows Search indexes every file at write time (or a background job) so the search results are near instantaneous … at least, that’s how it used to work. I don’t know what happened to it over the past 5-10 years.

        • masterspace@lemmy.caEnglish
          11·
          2 个月前

          Everything could do this but sometimes you don’t want to.

          i.e. you’re trading off the background indexing resource usage for instant search results, if you’re not frequently searching but are frequently using most of your resources (like let’s say on a web server), then that may not be a tradeoff worth making.

          • TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zipEnglish
            1·
            2 个月前

            NTFS drives have an index built-in. It’s not fit for search, but it comes with a journal and you can update a search index incrementally. That’s what Voidtools Everything does. It’s very fast and doesn’t need a background index. (I assume modern Linux drive formats can do the same)

    • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      I would argue it used to be faster since it was indexed.

      Not going to install win 11 to find out if it’s any good again. But in 7 it was.