Comment by bsrhng

9 hours ago

It's fascinating that one of the top features insiders are interested in is making File Explorer more dependable.

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qingcharles  9 hours ago

They took a real punch to the gut when File Pilot rolled out and showed them what their own devs should have been doing.

  • jiggawatts  8 hours ago

    Took the beta for a quick spin and... wow, the speed is truly astonishing!

    Windows doesn't feel slow because the kernel or the filesystem is inherently "that" slow, it feels like a sloth overdosing on heroin because nobody at Microsoft gives the slightest crap about making it even a tiny bit faster.

    It's staggering how the instant you double-click a file in File Pilot you're... back in the tar pit. (The Windows image preview app just spins... and spins... while it does God-knows-what with my CPUs.)

    The contrast of going from one to the other makes the quality difference glaringly obvious.

    • modeless  1 hour ago

      The Windows filesystem is very slow. It's not the main cause of slowness in Explorer, but it's still a real problem.

  • UberFly  8 hours ago

    Directory Opus has been doing that for decades.

    • deburo  4 hours ago

      I'm sure it did, but that app looks like a Win XP-era app (not even Win7). FilePilot is fast, looks good & feels modern (support a command palette, fuzzy search, etc). The only downside is that it runs on the GPU and so running it inside a VM is a bit of a hassle.

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