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Finder is certainly less visually appealing since it became monochrome, but a disaster? Its preview tools are excellent. It provides tabbed view, which is bizar

by dbspin 6y ago

Finder is certainly less visually appealing since it became monochrome, but a disaster? Its preview tools are excellent. It provides tabbed view, which is bizarrely still not available in Windows explorer. It's excellent at remembering the state of folders, and which information was previously available in columns. It works well across different sized screens. Not a huge fan of the look and feel of Big Sur in general, but moving back to MacOs recently after using windows of a couple of years, finder is a wonderful breath of fresh air.

Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
For one thing, it is extremely slow. Every time open file meny appears, or need to search for something, prepare to wait 15-30 seconds. File management is a pain, renaming, viewing properties, etc are likely the worst of all file managers I've ever seen. Nautilus is so much better (but it changed for the worse since 2008, too). (I'd prefer a Far Manager version for linux / iOS to manage files, but I have accepted that this will never happen, unfortunately)
- sbuk 6y ago
  How is renaming poor? You can batch rename and a simple click on the file name allows for renaming. Last time I used Nautilus, you still had to activate file renaming with a keypress or from a menu and that had to be done in a moat window. Viewing properties in Finder is easily done with cmd-i or viewable in column mode.
  - Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
    > You can batch rename and a simple click on the file name allows for renaming. Exactly! So every time I double-click a bit slower than macOS wants me to, it enters the renaming mode. I rarely need to rename files, and since the name should be entered via keyboard anyway, a special hotkey makes way more sense. Also, not showing file extensions by default is a big problem. And it is generally EXTREMELY SLOW, I shrug every time I have to launch the damn thing.
    - sbuk 6y ago
      Personally, I find that counter-intuitive in a WIMP UI. If it keeps happening, you can change your double-click speed in System Preferences - shortcut key is Enter (which has been the shortcut since before Windows or Gnome/KDE existed). File extensions have always been hidden by default. Again, on a WIMP based UI, they're kind of superfluous. Finder is super snappy form me. Literally just launched it and it's there straight away. Obviously YMMV...

by dbspin 6y ago

Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago

For one thing, it is extremely slow. Every time open file meny appears, or need to search for something, prepare to wait 15-30 seconds. File management is a pain, renaming, viewing properties, etc are likely the worst of all file managers I've ever seen. Nautilus is so much better (but it changed for the worse since 2008, too). (I'd prefer a Far Manager version for linux / iOS to manage files, but I have accepted that this will never happen, unfortunately)

sbuk 6y ago
How is renaming poor? You can batch rename and a simple click on the file name allows for renaming. Last time I used Nautilus, you still had to activate file renaming with a keypress or from a menu and that had to be done in a moat window. Viewing properties in Finder is easily done with cmd-i or viewable in column mode.
- Andrew_nenakhov 6y ago
  > You can batch rename and a simple click on the file name allows for renaming. Exactly! So every time I double-click a bit slower than macOS wants me to, it enters the renaming mode. I rarely need to rename files, and since the name should be entered via keyboard anyway, a special hotkey makes way more sense. Also, not showing file extensions by default is a big problem. And it is generally EXTREMELY SLOW, I shrug every time I have to launch the damn thing.
  - sbuk 6y ago
    Personally, I find that counter-intuitive in a WIMP UI. If it keeps happening, you can change your double-click speed in System Preferences - shortcut key is Enter (which has been the shortcut since before Windows or Gnome/KDE existed). File extensions have always been hidden by default. Again, on a WIMP based UI, they're kind of superfluous. Finder is super snappy form me. Literally just launched it and it's there straight away. Obviously YMMV...