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Is it me, or does Linux Mint have terrible file search? (reddthat.com)
submitted 3 days ago by QuantumTickler@reddthat.com to c/linux@programming.dev
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I search for files, and it never seems to find them. Plus it only does one drive at a time, and not just searches my external drives. Any suggestions?

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[-] thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Another tool to search in terminal is https://github.com/junegunn/fzf .

this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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