[Adverblessly]

Everything is pretty awesome, one of the things I really miss on Linux.

When I last looked for a Linux replacement for it, none had the real time updates or the instant search ui, and even those that claimed to index the file system for a quick search were very slow. I actually ended up writing my own hacky and rudimentary GUI over locate to achieve something that fits my needs (and of course doesn't support real time updates).

Maybe things changed since then? Any chance that the HN crowd knows of a good Linux replacement for Everything?

[super_mario]

Have you tried FZF (the fuzzy finder)?

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

It integrates well with UNIX shells, editors (VIM integration is excellent), git log search etc. It's really versatile.

Of course, there is also q:

http://harelba.github.io/q/

for something that is more like the software described by OP.

[enedil]

I don't know what features exactly Everything has, but maybe fsearch is a good alternative?

http://www.fsearch.org/

[kuschku]

Try out KDE's search. It does realtime fulltext indexing and just works.

Also integrated with the KRunner framework.

[netheril96]

I heard that Everything is dependent on the exact format of NTFS. The same algorithm isn't applicable to ext4 or HFS+.