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>Cmd-shift-G or Go > Go to folder isn't easy enough? What's KDE's super brilliant solution?

Not sure about KDE, but every OS (admittedly not many), other than Apple's macOS and previous iteraitions I've used, have had an address bar with the file path. Both of the options you mentioned weren't obvious to me and I only found out about them from your comment.

This isn't only an issue of familiarity but also an issue of features being discoverable.

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It's not obvious to me that the address bar in windows explorer sometimes behaves like breadcrumbs and sometimes becomes a text box. It's a very subtle behavior, but I'm sure for windows users it's totally discoverable and intuitive.

Finder has a breadcrumb you can enable. It's in View > Show Path Bar. It's for sure a discovery issue. MacOS assumes you've always been using it.

Discoverability is a holy grail. With a list of features that has been expanding since 1984, you can't expect them all to be discoverable. And this one isn't a very frequent use case for normal users.

KDE does have a different target audience from macOS and Windows, but even as a dev/architect/sysadmin, I'm not sure if I would have found it. I've got a GNOME setup at work, but no idea if it has a similar feature.

As a person, who is using Mac for close to three years, I have to admit that discoverability of keyboard shortcuts (or even existence of such - navigating apps' menus, for example) on OS X is close to zero.

> And this one isn't a very frequent use case for normal users

The Finder's Go menu seems like a reasonably discoverable location.

That being said.... I kind of wish you could type and tab-complete paths in the Find window (cmd-F in the Finder) and Spotlight (cmd-space in any app.)

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