[valarauca1]

Personal Experience: Implement a command line stack machine like an RPN calculator and it'll click. Every argument normally just pop's the next arg to determine its state. I purposely made myself use find for about 6 months and I still struggle with flags sometimes, especially when chaining more complex expressions.

Find is nirvana with SSD's. I can throw find commands at the root -exec'ing out to grep on my 512GB SSD very quickly.

Lastly cygwin + find is still faster then windows explorer search in my experience, especially if you have an SSD. This is a great way to start teaching yourself unix command line also.

[potatosareok]

Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong but I find cygwin/msys find very slow on my windows SSD. I mean I still generally use it just because I'm familiar but if I'm looking for a file in huge directory I look up whatever flags I need for dir (dir /s something something)

[valarauca1]

Its start up is incredibly slow, its operations are slower then native, but then you aren't doing native things.

The argument commonly used is productivity vs speed of operation. Even slow file systems are faster then I can humanly see happen more often then not.