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Really wish they'd just completely rewrite Explorer from the ground up. It's woefully antiquated feeling next to Finder. Seeing it struggle to scroll folders w
by whywhywhywhy 5y ago
Really wish they'd just completely rewrite Explorer from the ground up.
It's woefully antiquated feeling next to Finder. Seeing it struggle to scroll folders with 10,000+ items it can't even load them all in at once you have to scroll bit by bit, seeing it choke reading MP3 file folders because it's trying to do some dumb WinXP era metadata reading on an ancient code path. Seeing it unable to search for files on a sensible timescale or even accurately.
It's infuriating.
- jcelerier 5y agoat some point you could use KDE's Dolphin on windows, that was awesome
- ComputerGuru 5y ago> Really wish they'd just completely rewrite Explorer from the ground up. Oh god no. They’d nuke all the keyboard shortcuts, make everything take 20x more space, remove any advanced features such as keying by non-primary column, sorting by weird file-specific metadata, etc, add loading screens everywhere, make even the most basic operations require an async dispatch to a runtime host, break credentials authentication with the OS keystore, remove IME and input accelerators, nuke integrations with 3rd party apps for menus, overlays, and previews, hide file extensions, run always in fullscreen, break ClearType text rendering, block access to any system files, break the elevated operations workflow, remove access to non-local files, use 20x as much memory, crash at startup, break when an update ships out-of-band on an older patch release, and then be rewritten in four years.
- philistine 5y agoIf the company making the one true OS for everyone (except those Mac weirdos and the Linux perverts) cannot be trusted with making a modern file explorer, then they're not improving an ecosystem, they're just shovelling coal into the furnace of an heritage building. They're in maintenance mode.