Whilst I was going through journalctl, I leanred that tracker-miner clogged up the whole journal storage spamming error messages. Not the first bad experience I had with Nautilus, but man! It crossed the line big time this time.
No one likes Nautilus. I don’t think that the design of itself is not that bad. But the issue is one of of its critical dependency: tracker-miners. If you google that, you’ll find hundreds of people before me over the years, complaining about its unstability. Disabling tracker-miners renders Nautilus completely useless. But the good news is: it seems that you can keep using GNOME without it.
I could use mc or just use plain old terminal all the way, but content creation without a proper file manager is not a pleasant experience, I’d say.
If you’ve gone through the similar experiences and decided to use GNOME without Nautilus, what’s your alternative of choice?
I could file a bug report or even debug it myself. That’s the whole point of using Fedora I guess.
As much as I want to help tracker-miners better, I’m just fed up right now. Besides, I learned that most software like tracker-miners is a lost cause. The code smells. The design smells. By my own experience and amount of people desperately trying to disable it show just that.
The programs like tracker-miners often need a complete rewrite, rather than just a couple hours of debugging.
Sorry for going off-topic here. Had to sidetrack to reply to a sidetrack response.
