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by 8xde0wcNwpslOw 2844 days ago
On the other hand, I've never had my Linux desktop crash for decompressing a big ZIP archive. Of course, credit where credit is due, Explorer crashing isn't necessarily all that dramatic these days.

The funny thing is, even when decompression "works" on Windows 10 (that is, when you join hands in prayer and don't disturb the machine), you could theoretically just download the decompressed files faster over the internet. I can only guess the there's something fundamentally broken about Windows and file systems because many operations are so ridiculously slow no matter the hardware. It's perhaps my biggest gripe about modern Windows, aside from the actual desktop (working with multiple windows) being very bare and annoying to use, useless set of default applications, and that the built-in localized keyboard layout is obsolete and thus quite restricted as far as punctuation goes.

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> On the other hand, I've never had my Linux desktop crash for decompressing a big ZIP archive.

Yeah but I have, on multiple occasions, installed updates through a Linux package manager and after a reboot been brought to the console.

> I can only guess the there's something fundamentally broken about Windows and file systems because many operations are so ridiculously slow no matter the hardware.

NTFS is bad handling a large number of small files.

> aside from the actual desktop (working with multiple windows) being very bare and annoying to use,

How so? I love the hotkeys for snapping Windows, and Windows also has hotkeys for moving windows between monitors.

Lots of third party utility apps exist that can extend this functionality out.