Just a week ago, we discussed Microsoft's efforts to enhance File Explorer performance by preloading the application at startup. Recent testing by Windows Latest suggests that this approach results in diminishing returns, as the application uses more RAM while offering only marginal performance impr...
What the headline doesn’t say: It tested nearly double as slow as Windows 10’s File Explorer with this RAM usage increase.
Windows is getting worse. Not better.
What the headline doesn’t say either: just use Linux already as that just works
Yes, I’m that guy, sorry, not sorry
I’ll never understand why file explorers are so resource intensive and so slow. they’re getting a list of file names, maybe pulling a thumbnail from cache. they don’t need to read the metadata of every file in the folder you’re looking at, certainly not before displaying a list of files.
macos finder is even worse. i am often pausing for multiple seconds at the “file -> open” dialog
I would like to use a file explorer which tries to be as lightweight as “ls -lF”
Microsoft: “What was that? You want CoPilot integrated so it can search through your files for data mining…I mean helping you find stuff?”
imagine using a cloud-based AI to do the same thing as mlocated