"How did we get back to this though?" Probably because windows needs to make a connection for every file somewhere else first and wait for the reply, before gr

"How did we get back to this though?" Probably because windows needs to make a connection for every file somewhere else first and wait for the reply, before granting you the advanced software as a service feature called text editing. It definitely feels like this at times and I fear there is too much truth in my statement. But it is not just windows only. My old chromebook took seconds to open a folder in the file browser (even if it was already open). But a "ls" on the terminal was instant for any folder. So getting the information was not the problem. But from there to displaying it in a GUI, there seems to be myriads of important (tracking?) layers involved.