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Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by saalweachter on Friday May 24, 2019 @11:48PM (#20006988)
And now we're kind of coming out the other side, where storage is so large and can contain so many items that organizing it all into a hierarchical structure is a full time job in itself.

MP3s can mostly sort themselves, but your pictures ... and then you have the N-layer-deep "old computer" directories, where you copied all the files from your last computer to your new computer.

Re:Why Does Windows Really Use Backslash as Path Separator? by jandrese on Saturday May 25, 2019 @08:34PM (#20012382)
These days every desktop environment integrates an increasingly featureful fast search feature front and center because they know you aren't going to be able to keep up.