>The Finder has so many bizarre quirks and it's so slow to proliferate updates that it's just embarrassing
Say what you will about Windows, but the Explore file manager has always been pretty rock solid.
Say what you will about Windows, but the Explore file manager has always been pretty rock solid.
Windows 11 has pretty severely fucked up Explorer. Named directories can't have their path copied (I think 10 did this bullshit, too). The context menu getting insane whitespace, missing options, and having things dynamically load into it is a travesty. It is heartbreaking that mobile-inspired trash is ultimately going to be way you're forced to interact with a computer.
People let their distaste for somebody's bad behavior and/or old things stop them from admitting that we're in a pretty severe backward slide.
About that part... Modern computers are insanely fast. How does every single piece of software manages to fill half a minute of CPU or disk I/O for enumerating some 3 or 4 items?
It's absurd.
I use Firefox inside eatmydata nowadays, because it spends 10 minutes enumerating the same 2 directories every time it starts up (hundreds of thousands of times). The start menu and equivalents everywhere are already famous. Windows can't search files nowadays, not only it doesn't work, but it never ends either... The list is endless.
What have you got like a 10 year old profile or something?
Librewolf starts up instantly for me, and I saw no performance difference using eatmdata.
Anyway, there are a lot of people reporting the same thing on the internet. I've found 3 different bugs opened for the same thing.
But yeah, as far as I remember, Iceweasel doesn't do it either. Maybe I should change my browser.
I don't know any more because I use Total Commander on Windows...
I prefer the good ole two pane file managers and I actively avoid both the finder and explorer most of the time.