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I have the same setup on Nobara with kRunner.
Mac has spotlight and it works pretty well. Windows start menu has similar functionality as well.
Windows indexing is garbage: if I type the name of an app in the search it can't find stuff that has been installed, and sometimes it likes less keystrokes, as in exc will show excel, exce will remove excel as a choice. And file indexing (even though I have the folders added to search indexing) just doesn't find stuff, its basically a directory crawler. Where on Linux it's instant