The main thing that keeps me using Windows and not Linux is a tool to index folders and files from all my DVDs and external hard disks. It also accounts for total size of each folder and browse the archive.
I only use the search file/folder name feature, I don't even need any content indexing that this tool has. It just needs to scale to Terabytes size (like millions of files/folders) and optionally do de-duplication.
If you know such tool on Linux, it would really help me to be less dependent on Windows. Or maybe someone you can build such a tool on Linux. I tried to create my own tool in Java but it took too much DRAM to index the many files I have. This Win tool indexes all my files and folders in a file of 1-200MB and searches all in 10-30 seconds. No server/database in involved, just a standalone tool.
I share the tool just for reference. The tool didn't had any update for years, I hope the programmer is still alive and healthy. https://www.whereisit-soft.com/
I only use the search file/folder name feature, I don't even need any content indexing that this tool has. It just needs to scale to Terabytes size (like millions of files/folders) and optionally do de-duplication.
If you know such tool on Linux, it would really help me to be less dependent on Windows. Or maybe someone you can build such a tool on Linux. I tried to create my own tool in Java but it took too much DRAM to index the many files I have. This Win tool indexes all my files and folders in a file of 1-200MB and searches all in 10-30 seconds. No server/database in involved, just a standalone tool.
I share the tool just for reference. The tool didn't had any update for years, I hope the programmer is still alive and healthy. https://www.whereisit-soft.com/