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Until there's a community for Enterprise Networking you have to suffer my meme. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (4 children)

Moving files across several subfolder levels tends to be much faster on a GUI. Finding files is usually much faster via CLI, even when you have to look up again how to use the find command of your choice

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Is there an instant GUI find tool on linux? find is very slow compared to using Everything on windows, and sorting results is really hard via CLI.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    I don't know about GUI tools, but:

    Everything is so fast because it uses the index built into NTFS to find files by filename quickly, and NTFS is the definitive file system on Windows so it works everywhere.

    On Linux, there isn't really an index built into the filesystem - some might have that, but I don't know about it. That said, plocate is a common tool that uses its own index. You have to update the database when files change (you'll probably have a job doing that daily), but searching the index is very fast.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    I usually just make a bat or py script to move and create specific files to specific folders.

    I only do this because I'm lazy and numbering, renaming and creating folders is a drag and can be easily automated, but just copy/paste or cut/paste is faster in GUI, especially with alt tab and the new tab file system on windows.

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  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    A GUI with a search function is always the best way to deal with filesystems, in my experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Always orders of magnitude slower and near-infinitely less featureful, in my experience.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Your filesystem must be monstrously huge if it's actually perceptibly slow. I also get tired of typing in long filenames with a ton of special characters I have to escape.

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