Really? Windows isn't exactly known for the quality of it's search. It becoming consistently worse with every Windows version has been a meme for at more than a decade.

But Windows is know for a lot of productivity apps other platforms lack. I meant the Everything file search app (doesn't exist on Linux/Mac), not the default Windows search

> "Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows.

Well, on Linux I have `locate` and `fd` which work really well, doing that very thing, and `ripgrep` does even more.

I heard something built-in is also shipped with macOS, it's called something like "Spotlight".

OTOH MS Excel for Windows is one and only, the macOS version barely holds a candle to it, and analogs are even further away.

"that very thing" was instant and anywhere (not your irrelevant generic description), which your suggested tools can't do. You're just content with a poor cli substitute.

There are also GUIs for this, though I haven't compared the two directly: eg. https://www.recoll.org/