Very happy with

http://cboxdoerfer.github.io/fsearch/

find . -iname "searchword"

I use the fd (or fdfind in Debian) tool to search my files. I think it's faster and easier to remember.

fd in Github

I use Kfind https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.kfind

For a long time I was a mlocate guy.

updatedb

locate files

If you're a GUI guy, catfish is good. If you're a term guy, fzf, rg, fd are very fast and powerful. I search for files in / (meaning EVERYTHING) and tge results are there in less than 10 seconds.

This blog post has some example usages, read the entries for fzf, rg and fd.

https://alavi.me/blog/cool-cli-tui/#fd

tree -if and grep are another way to go.

or, I've also seen some use du as part of their file search strategy. heh.

strange ways.

For finding files by name, I use the locate command in terminal

Another tool to search in terminal is https://github.com/junegunn/fzf .

I gave up on search utlities of GUIs after having the same problem with dolphin (don't know what it uses as a backend, maybe ksearch?)

grep is life