[lelandfe]

The amount of applications on the average consumer's laptop is such a tiny space to search over that there really is no excuse for this being anything other than instant.

iOS and macOS suffer this too, it's like I open search and the operating system awakes from a hangover and makes sure it's wearing pants first

[Uzazo]

Tip: Spotlight searches through all data and can be slow, but there's a separate App Library search that only searches the app names and it's instant.

[lelandfe]

One of the first things I do on any Mac device is to disable Spotlight, install and bind Alfred to Cmd-Space, and then change Finder's preferences so that Cmd-F searches the current directory.

[chris_wot]

iOS and macOS aren't even close to the awfulness of search on Windows.

[tonyedgecombe]

Although they have just rewritten it so there must have been some problems with it.