Windows search is godawful. Not only is it slow, but it explicitly omits a bunch of directories, like AppData in your home. Guess were most applications keep their user accessible data. It's so bad.

If for example someone wants to install a GIMP plugin, you can't tell them to just search for the GIMP directory from their home, because the search simply won't find it.

Search was great in 7. Taskbar search - perfect. Then they did something to fuck it all up. In Windows 10, I get different results for the same search in Taskbar (that's how I launch everything, so if I type "Note" and open N++ a few times, that's it, it should remember it, which is how 7 worked).

Explorer search isn't even working half the time for me lol, either it doesn't show any results or the search bar is completely inaccessible. Fuck knows what's wrong with it, I just use Agent Ransack.

That "something" was integrating a Bing search into the process, just in case you were trying to find "how is babby made?" on your filesystem search.

Honestly I've never really had search performance issues in Nautilus. Windows on the other hand...

I haven't bothered with Windows' built in search (explorer, and god forbid the Start menu search) for finding files since discovering Everything

https://www.voidtools.com

I keep it pinned as the first item in my bottom row of programs so I can hit Win+1 to fire off an instantaneous file search whenever I want. It's great!