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Re:The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive by Piskvorrr on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:46PM (#13135023)
For a tool that's supposed to be on most desktops by default, Explorer has some strange inefficiencies, such as the estimation and the loooong "preparing to copy" phase. Perhaps they are carried over from the old Windows NT codebase?
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Re:The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive by wruza on Thursday December 08, 2016 @05:58PM (#13135093)
Of course they are. MS is biggest visual theme seller on the planet.
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Re:The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive by 3r1kB on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:36AM (#13138640)
Reminds me of this XKCD haha https://xkcd.com/612/
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