Is it me, or does Linux Mint have terrible file search? (reddthat.com)

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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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[-] Avicenna@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I gave up on search utlities of GUIs after having the same problem with dolphin (don't know what it uses as a backend, maybe ksearch?)

this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026

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