"In the early days of Linux, searching for files was a command-line affair using either locate or find. Although the tools were suitable for the job, they would sometimes fail to find what I was looking for or would require complicated regular expressions to function properly. New users to Linux should avoid using regular expressions. This is especially true now, with the many great GUI applications available for Linux."
"After all, why would you bother with the command line when you can point and click your way to finding the files and folders you need? The GUI apps also happen to have more options and customizations available, making them more usable and user-friendly. And they work really well. I will say that there are some GUIs specifically for searching that don't work as well as others, so I've limited my list to those I know work and work well."
"Catfish has been around for quite some time. I remember using this app in the early 2000s and thinking that it wasn't bad, but could use some work. The Catfish of today, however, is seriously good -- and very fast. Although Catfish is the default search for the Xfce desktop, it works perfectly fine on most Linux desktops. The Catfish GUI is well-designed and easy to use. Catfish uses fuzzy search, so you don't have to be exact with your capitalization or complete with your search strings."
Traditional Linux file searching relied on locate or find and often required complex regular expressions that could be unreliable. New Linux users benefit from graphical search applications that remove the need for regex and enable point-and-click file discovery. GUI search apps provide additional options and customizations, improving usability and user-friendliness across distributions. Catfish exemplifies modern GUI search: fast, using fuzzy search to ignore capitalization and incomplete strings, well-designed, and compatible beyond the Xfce desktop. Some GUI search tools perform poorly, so choosing ones proven to work well ensures reliable search results.
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