Many users say that one of the first things to do after installation, is to remove beagle (I think because it is cumbersome and slow).
What do you use as an alternative or do you use beagle?
It is quite easy to use "whereis xxx" in shell, but this doesn't give you a listing of close matches.
I always remove beagle because it is cumbersome and slow. Instead I use whereis or find or which or grep , or use Konqueror's search tool, depending on what I'm trying to locate or what I'm doing at the time or which one I can remember at the time or the phase of the moon, or...
Search??? I tend to use the method of random looking through a File Manager. I rarely find what I need but quite often find something interesting. Though I will have to say the Search feature I use the most has been in YaST Software Manager.
I always try to not even let beagle install. I don't need a very advanced search, so I just use what is built into Konqueror. Its always worked for me.
Always removed it though to be fair I haven't removed it from the vmware installs I have at the moment. Though I have killed it in FF don't know what it does there but it gets painful occasionally. The reason I haven't killed it is it does seem far better behaved than it used to be, so haven't really noticed it.
As for actually using it no I don't, always install find-utils(iirc) and use locate, then on the odd occasion I actually need to do what beagle does then I just use grep -R. I think for people that had to use incantations of grep -R more than I do then it seems very beneficial as searching an index will always be quicker, but for me not. Then like bozo sometimes find but I find that better when I have a rough idea where to look.
locate will give you inexact matches. Sometimes too many and needs parsing with grep.
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