Comment by 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.

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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.

    • kasabali  2 hours ago

      Why the hell would I want a file manager to be run on the GPU. it's supposed to be light on requirements and run on a potato, it's a file manager ffs not a 3rd person shooter.

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