[ntauthority]

On Windows, I can enumerate a directory that accidentally got millions of files perfectly fine without the system itself breaking and with results being returned incrementally.

On Linux/ext4, it takes an eternity for an enumeration to even start returning results and the entire OS gets stuck on IO while doing so.

[rbanffy]

True, but that's not a common enough use case to optimize for. I'd prefer Windows updates happened at the same speed Linux ones do.