> Windows 11's file browser lags when opening directories with more than 100-ish files. Windows 11's file browser takes a few seconds to open at all.

There's a guy that has written their own version of explorer that's so fast in comparison to the built-in, that you'd think they were cheating somehow because of everyone's experience with explorer.

And someone has written an IDE for C++ that opens while Visual Studio is on its splash screen.

And another that has written a debugger with the same performance.

And a video doing the rounds of Word ('97?) on spinning rust opening in just under 2 seconds.

Basically, everything MS is doing is degrading performance. Opportunities for regular devs to go back to performant software, and MS is unlikely to fix theirs in the foreseeable future.

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benhurmarcel 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> version of explorer that's so fast

https://filepilot.tech/

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ZeWaka 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

$250 for a version with updates past a year? yikes

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skrebbel 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For a lifetime license incl updates forever that seems quite reasonable to me. It's a bit over a year of Netflix.

In fact, given that it includes perpetual priority support (within a business day!) I expect the author's gonna change that soon, once he gets one of those infinitely demanding customers and realizes what a terrible mistake he made (inf support for a one-time payment, oops!). So better bite while it's hot!

The €40 option for one year of updates is a lot more economical and is still a perpetual license for the software itself.

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fleshmonad 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Imagine paying for a file browser. This is why windows will always win. They have the most docile userbase ever. They'd rather pay 250 bucks for a file picker than to change OS.

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yread 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Hey Total Commander is free/shareware (if you can live with the nag screen) and superior to anything on any OS

	▲	katsura 10 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		My solution to the nag screen was that I never turned off my computer, just put it to sleep, so Total Commander was always running. Interestingly, TC was one of the few software that I considered paying for, but in the end I didn't because they asked for too much information at the time. Not long later I switched to Linux, and I couldn't use TC there.

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MengerSponge 41 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

If you use software that is $10k/year and Windows only, a few bucks here and there to improve your quality of life is a rounding error

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Gracana an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Now I'm shocked by the cost of Netflix.

	▲	Tom1380 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The monthly subscriptions always sound cheaper than they are

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b00ty4breakfast an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

some folks about to make a decent amount of money if the trend wrt win11 continues

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iJohnDoe 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've tried this a few times. Windows 10. Downloaded the 2MB file, double-clicked on it, and nothing happens. Same thing when I tried it a few months again. Put it in a command prompt and no output of an error.

I'm starting to worry I just launched something malicious.

	▲	direwolf20 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The latter is normal on windows. Executables have a header flag which specifies they either use the terminal or not. If a terminal program is opened from outside a terminal, it opens a terminal window. If a nonterminal program is opened from a terminal, it instantly detaches.
	▲	smusamashah an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		After downloading, did you open its properties and "unblock" it?

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skrebbel 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

woa!!

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AuthAuth 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The problem is on windows you're competing directly against the guys who own the operating system. So even when there is a gap for a better file manager the one that microsoft makes is so entrenched and microsoft can make sure they always win. It sucks.

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hn_acc1 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I found chrome was putting itself into "eco mode" on my Lenovo (work) laptop all of a sudden. Meant that waking up took FOREVER, and accessing a web page (required as part of a daily login) took 15+ seconds to load when first logging in, as opposed to a few seconds, which caused our password app to timeout at times, etc. Who the heck comes up with these ideas? "Eco mode" by default? And no way to disable it easily? I had to add an obscure switch to the chrome startup to make it run normally again.

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vee-kay an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

A similar example: Microsoft's Windows Search function is so pathetic and slow, yet there's another little company who gives a blazing fast file search tool, that's available as (portable) freeware since 15+ years.

Everything Search: https://www.voidtools.com/

Everything Search uses the NTFS indexes to do blazing fast file or folder searches. It has a neat and clean interface, and no nagging ads (unlike.. cough, cough.. Windows 11). Everything Search is one of the first tools I install on any new Windows PC.