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maltch 3 days ago

Explorer is a much better tool than Finder. Couldn't agree more.

api 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I find Explorer slow and frustrating, while Finder works but is basic and cumbersome and useless for anything more than basic opening or moving.

I remember outstanding file managers way back in the MS-DOS days. Sidekick, QuickDOS, and Norton Commander were great.

My take is that expert users use the terminal while regular users don’t like to do much with files. So there’s no push for a powerful graphical file manager.

deadbeef7f 3 days ago | parent [-]

If you are a windows user, you may want to check out File Pilot https://filepilot.tech/

peanball 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

And yet copying multiple large files from or to the same disk grinds the throughput to a halt on Windows where Finder keeps up close to theoretical bandwidth in sum.

api 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Windows file I/O has always felt slower than Linux, Mac, anything. Still does. I don’t know what’s wrong with it or why it’s unfixable.

SSDs make it tolerable… not by fixing it but by being fast enough to hide it. Back in the spinning disc days you could tell a windows machine by how much kerchunking the drive was doing.

userbinator 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That's not a UI issue.

NinjaTrance 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Mac (the hardware) is amazing.

MacOS (the OS) is much better than Windows.

But MacOS (the user interface) is worse than Windows (or even Linux).