...but the SMB implementation on macOS is shit.

Try to browse any network directory with a non-trivial amount of files and see the whole Finder window just beach-ball or freeze.

I can browse my NAS faster via a browser and copyparty[0] than with Finder and SMB or NFS...

[0] https://github.com/9001/copyparty

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?