It might be worth excluding certain directories from Spotlight to prevent it from indexing node_modules etc which tend to be massive but mostly useless from a Spotlight search perspective.
It used to be snappy for the whole system, then it took a horrible regression.
Re:My next Mac might be the last
by karaterobot on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @11:03AM
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Your response is fair, but would you agree that "it's a long-standing convention" is not a defense against "I don't like it"?
The claim was that these are “bad”. But they’re not inherently any better or worse, just a conflicting convention, mostly dating back to the 1980s.
It’s like the difference between US vs. UK spelling conventions. A British person saying “Americans are bad at spelling words” is just trolling.
> Search within finder does not search the current context by default, it searches your entire computer. "But you can change this setting!" You shouldn't have to change this setting, and most people don't know it's even there.
The default behavior used to be great, ~10 years ago (extremely snappy search scoped to the current folder). The change to searching the whole computer with significant lag was an absurd and mysterious regression.