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  • Thats fair. If you ever go back then at cli typing tracker3 will give a list of commands.

    Tracker3 status will give you what it is doing or if it is idle, and notes on files that are troublesome.

    tracker3 reset with cetain flags will purge and rebuild index.

    You can also set filetypes and folders to index, but that is probably eaaier in dconf-editor settings, under org/freedesktop/tracker/mine/files



  • Tracker should not be recrawling everything, unless you delete the index with a tracker3 reset

    Once it builds the initial index only new files or changed files should be recrawled for meta data.

    The only time I have seen Tracker use cpu was when it got hung up on a file that had special code in it that was messing with parsing the data and so it would fail and retry over and over.



  • When I was on reddit the ones spouting the most linux hate seemed to fall into two main categories.

    1. those that tried it like 15 years ago and still hold a grudge.

    2. dudes who heard people rave about linux but they themselves struggled with certain concepts when trying it out. And rather than realize they need to read instructions and learn new things, instead would rather blame linux for not working as expected.









  • Try a few. The distro hopping is part of the fun, till you find one that suits you. We have one old laptop and it does not play nice with debian/ubuntu based distros…some fail at installer, some install and the fail to boot. But RPM based distros or even NixOS were totally fine. (Some hardware bug tripping deb based distros). So if something doesn’t work at first, don’t give up.

    Live ISOs are a nice try before you buy method to test linux.

    If you do want to try gaming Bazzite is a good choice