Take the 2-minute tour ×  Having switched to Linux Mint as my
primary OS, one of the few things that makes me miss Windows are
the built-in search capabilities.  In Windows, I can simply hit
the "super" key and immediately enter search terms in the start
menu. The search results may include the names of many PDFs,
spreadsheets, text files, etc., if I have told Windows to index
these files. Note that the search includes the text inside the
files. If I want a little more information, a few intuitive
keystrokes will get me to a file explorer with a longer list of
filenames, including full paths and a few matches in context.
From there I can, again very intuitively, refine my search with
different keywords or by searching specific folders only.
Overall, Windows does most of what I want here, and more or less
out of the box.  Is it possible to achieve this kind
functionality in Linux with existing tools? My impression is
that it is not. Google Desktop is dead, other tools either don't
index or only look at file na