FSearch
Close matchFreeSame instant type-and-see search. You pick which folders it indexes instead of it knowing about the whole drive automatically.
Does Everything run on Linux?
Verdict: No
No. Everything is built around a Windows disk format and voidtools only makes it for Windows. FSearch on Linux does the same instant search by filename and is free.
Everything gets its speed from a record that Windows keeps of every change on an NTFS drive. That record does not exist on Linux, so the program could not work the same way even if voidtools wanted to write one. The supported list runs from Windows XP to Windows 11 and stops there.
FSearch is the Linux answer, and it was written by someone who missed Everything. You type part of a name and matching files appear as you go. The difference is that FSearch builds its own index of the folders you choose rather than reading a system-wide record, so you tell it once which folders matter and refresh it after you add a lot of files.
Your desktop also has a search box built in that finds recent files and apps, and on GNOME systems it covers the contents of documents as well. It is slower and broader than Everything. Most people end up using the desktop search for the obvious things and FSearch for the times they know the filename.
Nothing happens to your files. Everything never stored anything of its own beyond its index.
What to use instead of Everything
This doesn't have to stop you
One stubborn program doesn't have to decide the whole question. You can keep Windows on the same PC and restart into it only when you need Everything. Everything else you do can move.
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