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    I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I’d like to keep on Linux.

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      I just updated to Windows 11 and oh boy has it gotten worse when compared to 10…

      The UI, useless spacing in between items, 2nd context menu, gigantic bars on top, the somehow missing create folder button, OneDrive Integration, “Pin to quick access” everywhere, freezing up when creating thumbnails, constantly somehow resetting the layout of the user home and I’m just getting started… But hey it got tabs now

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        I was a win10 user because I was forced to update from 7. So I got really annoyed when I saw the new context menu for dumdums. It’s useless.

        If I ever need to install windows 11, either on a virtual machine or for a family member, I run a script that returns the old context menu (and several others that remove a bunch of bloat and de-activate internet search on the searchbar)

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          Ohh not totally for dumdums. The design of the old context menu is one of Explorer’s greatest weaknesses.

          When you right click that menu, every context application DLL listed in the registry needs to load. So if you have an end user with a bunch of context apps. mp3tag, smartrename,scan for viruses or even worse some dll that needs a network resource to init. that context menu can take 5-10 seconds to load on an old encumbered system.

          9/10 they just want to right click and open with or rename, so there’s a cheap menu with no dll loading and an option to load them anyway.

          I feel you, I set my win11 desktop to show the old style too, but the idea behind it isn’t bad.

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            Wouldn’t the better idea have been to load specific DLLs on activation of a function then? Dicking over users that know how to use their OS for the sake of digital slobs seems unfair.

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              There’s a million different design problems in all of Windows. There’s probably a million better ways to fix the problem.

              I’m just saying that what they did isn’t without merit. And they did leave you the option to turn it off.

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          Microsoft has been doing the most to break those. I was using PatchExplorer which has a lot of these features. Microsoft broke the ability to completely remove that awful, wasted space for “Recommended” in the Start Menu. It’s absolutely useless and an eyesore.

          But it at least still worked to revert the context menu to what it should be. I hate always having to figure out what icon is for copy/paste/delete than just having the damn word and also having to go to the old context for 7zip/other third party apps.

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            Its because the recommended is literally ads. Microsoft is putting ads on the start menu. If that cant get someone to switch to Linux, nothing can

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              Yep, that’s exactly what I realized too and why they’re hellbent on it being there.

              I am no longer using Windows at home except a server I’m working on moving to Linux and it’s partly because of this. I’ve given up on Windows.

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          I use Windows 10 with OpenShell so I can turn it into Windows 7. I definitely will never use windows 11 hahaha

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        Microsoft messed up File Explorer tabs. If you make a new tab, start a search, the close the tab before the search finishes, you break the URL/path bar text. You cannot see what directory you are in unless you click the path bar. The only way to fix it is you restart the application.

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        Explorer on windows 11 has gotten better in a lot of ways and only worse in a few.

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            Tabs? That’s pretty major.

            Also that right click menu is lighters faster than the old school menu. Every application and their mother wants to add shit to the right click menu and it would lag out to the point it would take 10 seconds to open. The new one doesn’t have that issue anymore.

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              Uh… The new one literally takes a couple of seconds to remember that OneDrive and Notepad++ exist when I use it on my work PC, all while entries towards the bottom keep shifting around.

              It’s completely unusable.

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                Fast on my machine even with NP++. It did slow it down a smidge though when 4 things got added.

                Maybe it’s just OneDrive being a piece of shit? I don’t have it in my right click menu for some raisin.

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                  Might be, tbh. I never noticed it on my Surface, which has OneDrive disabled, but I used that one was less. Or maybe it’s some other garbage on the corporate laptop causing issues (like Trellix).

                  Now you made me want to investigate.

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              It still has the old annoying bug where the entire explorer.exe crashes if your mouse cursor gets anywhere near a network drive that can’t be reached. Accidentally hover over its icon in the left sidebar, and explorer just freezes up unrecoverably. I guess the technology to safely handle hovering over the icon of a disconnected drive is just not there yet.

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                I have honestly no idea how microsoft still hasn’t fixed that issue. Granted I’ve never had it crash from waiting for a directory to respond, it just waits the full 1 minute for the packet to die before coming back.

                Also can’t say I’ve had it happen for stuff pinned to the side bar, only when typing it in, or clicking on a mapped directory on the “this pc”

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              Also that right click menu is lighters faster than the old school menu. Every application and their mother wants to add shit to the right click menu and it would lag out to the point it would take 10 seconds to open.

              if you don’t install all the garbage of the internet, that’s not a problem. it can also be cleaned up, even without regedit.

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                if you don’t install all the garbage of the internet, that’s not a problem. it can also be cleaned up, even without regedit.

                I rather like having the context there in the submenu. it’s one more click. but it’s fast, and I don’t need to tag this mp3 every time I right click->open with, but I do miss it if I don’t have that option anywhere. And they made it optional.

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            Split view, tabs, drag and drop to the addressbar. The ui looks cleaner compared to win 10.

            Negative is that one drive got even more embedded and they fucked up the right click menu.

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        At least on linux you have the choice. Somehow however, it seems so many people like to recreate or even worsen the windows experience. I guess Unixporn didn’t make it to lemmy, but half of those did not feel usable. Why would I want one inch wide gaps between everything?

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        Nah, who cares. We even have guys around who claim that they like vim. Just another crazy isn’t a reason to get torches. We save them for a real occasion.

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        Okay, I’m generally on the side if dolphin UI-wise, but when it comes to the topic of lagginess, it has to be said that dolphin, and in fact, almost everything using the kio infrastructure, is the one shitting the bed here. You’d think a bit of multithreading will keep the UI from freezing up whenever the underlying I/O has some minor hiccup (which can absolutely happen in practice with network filesystems or USB sticks in combination with large file transfers), but apparently dolphin can’t do that.

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            It lags for me whenever I access some filesystem that takes a while to respond. That could be a faulty or old device, or it could be an NFS share with multiple large file transfers going on in the background.

            And when I say it lags, I don’t mean it just takes a while to show me a directory’s content, I mean the entire UI freezes and kwin will grey out the window because tha application isn’t responding any more.

            This does not happen a lot, and if your file browsing is largely limited to a fast local storage, like a SATA SSD or even an NVMe, you may well never see this problem at all. But it does happen.

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          Admittedly I use an NVMe drive but I’ve never had this happen once in the years I’ve been using KDE. Dolphin is so much snappier than Windows Explorer on the same hardware that it’s almost funny.

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      If it wasn’t for the bugs I’d whole heartedly love windows 11s explorer over 10s.

      But if explorer stops responding me my interactions one more time I’m going to commit a crime.

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      Seconded.

      There’s a lot of reasons to hate Microsoft. There’s a lot of reasons to hate Windows 11.

      Their explorer is’t one of them. The new context menus when you right click anywhere is, sure. But explorer and notepad got righteous upgrades.

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        On the context menu: I’ve been using Nilesoft Shell for a few years now and it’s been wonderful. It’s got all the options from Windows 10 plus a few more in the Windows 11 style.

        Edit: wrong link, fixed

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      The primary differences between Dolphin and Explorer are mainly in speed and the context menus for applications. (which is the reason explorer is more encumbered)

      Since I use context menus on my windows admin workstation, I wouldn’t want dolphin there and I sure as hell don’t want explorer in my NixOS.