Yeah I don’t know how they made it so bad. On Windows & Linux, using an SMB share basically gives you the same experience as using a USB hard drive connected directly to the machine. On Mac, you have to wait 30 seconds every time you open a directory. Then when you’re finally at the directory you want and start copying files, the speed slows down to a crawl as the copy progresses. I find it especially confusing because Apple offers 10 Gbit networking for their desktops at an additional fee. What’s the point of having that option when their shitty SMB implementation makes doing anything on your LAN far slower than 1 Gbit anyway?

>or files synchronized through Nextcloud, under "recent files"

Are those created/updated with the current date when they sync, or with the date they have on the host system?

You have to type it.

Finder shows them in the sidebar and you just click on it.

Apple OS (both classic and NeXTStep) are not keyboard driven but mouse driven.

> - the fact that you cannot cut and paste files

Back in time I also complained about this, but do you know that if you copy (CMD+C) then do CMD+ALT+V, then copy&paste becomes cut&paste ?

I lost track of how many times ive lost data to cut.

They also screwed up cmd-shift-g a few versions ago where if you type, say, /Users/me/Documents, it puts you in /Users/me. Now you have to put in /Users/me/Documents/ if you actually want that folder. Then of course the autocomplete wasn’t changed as well, so if you start typing and then cursor down to the completion and hit enter, it doesn’t fill in the slash, so it goes to the parent folder. You have to cursor down, press tab, so it fills in the trailing slash, then hit enter.

It’s theoretically a small annoyance, but it gets me a few times a week since I had muscle memory for the old, correct way. I’ve filed several radars over the years and never heard back. It’s one of those things that makes me want to get a job at Apple, fix the bug, and quit.

Incidentally, this was one of the nice little things that made me switch to the Mac many years ago. There wasn’t any way to my knowledge that you could switch to a path in windows by typing it out from inside explorer.

If you use the terminal at all just cd to your directory of choose and then do open .

It's in the menu bar under "Go…" or something similar.

(I'm not on a desktop right now, so I can't be precise.)

I think the problem is that Finder searches too much stuff by default. The same problem is true of modern windows search, iOS search, and Android.

First thing I do on all of them is have it only search local stuff. If I want to do a damn web search I'll open my browser of choice and use Kagi. On iOS I restrict it even further to only show local apps and settings. Massively improves the speed, latency, etc etc.