Comment by smartstakestime

just think of they way the OSs are used.

get to a directory:

linux: cd /dir (no info) windows: open directory ... all the info and different views depending on your selection currently like image file thumbnails

in windows you are always accessing this meta data so it makes sense to speed it up. while in linux even the ls fucking does give you meta data you have to add the extra options so it doesnt makes sense to speed up and waste storage on something that is infrequent

seem like both ways are sound