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They took a real punch to the gut when File Pilot rolled out and showed them what their own devs should have been doing.
by qingcharles 6mo ago
They took a real punch to the gut when File Pilot rolled out and showed them what their own devs should have been doing.
- UberFly 6mo agoDirectory Opus has been doing that for decades.
- drcongo 6mo agoHadn't heard that name since the Amiga days and had no idea it was still around!
- deburo 6mo agoI'm sure it did, but that app looks like a Win XP-era app (not even Win7). FilePilot is fast, looks good & feels modern (support a command palette, fuzzy search, etc). The only downside is that it runs on the GPU and so running it inside a VM is a bit of a hassle.
- ChoGGi 6mo agoYou can completely customize how it looks.
- kasabali 6mo agoWhy the hell would I want a file manager to be run on the GPU. it's supposed to be light on requirements and run on a potato, it's a file manager ffs not a 3rd person shooter.
- VoidWarranty 6mo agoThe reqs are likely a side effect of how the application is built and the fact that its made by a solo dev. I find it more pleasant to do UI within the context of a video game renderer than to bother with ui libraries and native hooks. You only have to deal with windows enough to get you a rendering context: then you can do everything in your walled garden.
- jiggawatts 6mo agoTook the beta for a quick spin and... wow, the speed is truly astonishing! Windows doesn't feel slow because the kernel or the filesystem is inherently "that" slow, it feels like a sloth overdosing on heroin because nobody at Microsoft gives the slightest crap about making it even a tiny bit faster. It's staggering how the instant you double-click a file in File Pilot you're... back in the tar pit. (The Windows image preview app just spins... and spins... while it does God-knows-what with my CPUs.) The contrast of going from one to the other makes the quality difference glaringly obvious.
- modeless 6mo agoThe Windows filesystem is very slow. It's not the main cause of slowness in Explorer, but it's still a real problem.
- Bolwin 6mo agoFile pilot seems to use an immediate mode UI to be responsive and uses 10% cpu even when idle or minimized. I'm not sure that's worth it.