Comment by ffsm8

7 months ago

Eh, as a person then uses both occasionally... I feel like they're pretty on-par?

Is the osx search performing so much better on your end? If so, in results or speed? Because for me, both osx and windows searches leave me annoyed anytime I try to use them, it's so bad that I usually prefer to use CLI tools on both platforms ...

Or were you just saying it cuz it's funny?

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prmoustache  7 months ago

On the azure win11 desktop I am using professionally (only windows I use) a large fraction of the time you can't even search anything because the windows menu just freeze.

  • ffsm8  7 months ago

    Same for me, But OSX seems to have a similar issue at least on my MacBook Pro M1.

    I occasionally get the multicolor disk spinner which locks all UI interactions for a few seconds (10-30s) until it unfreezes and works as before again...

    Haven't been able to figure out the exact cause for it, feels very random.

    • danaris  7 months ago

      I know that occasionally, the Spotlight index can get corrupted, and you have to manually delete it and let it regenerate. If you search for that with your current OS version, you should be able to find some decent instructions for it.

      (My guess is that the Windows issue is something similar? but I have no experience with it, so don't know if it can be fixed in a similar way)

  • DrewADesign  7 months ago

    While it’s clearly not everybody, in my and a number of other users’ personal onedrives, search hasn’t worked since May. Zero results for any search in any context. No response from MS other than essentially “yep! Sorry! Working on it! Promise! In the interim, try just remembering where everything is maybe! lol!”

DrewADesign  7 months ago

I’m sure there’s some indexing thing I could take care of, but windows edges out spotlight for me for both ineffectiveness and slowness on every machine I use. For me, windows used to be far better than spotlight. It’s strange to me how much better the command line tools do essentially the same job, and that, anecdotally, the GUI ones seem to be getting worse?