[tiffanyh]

I run macOS every day, and while I find Apple Silicon shockingly fast - I'm surprised at how shockingly slow Finder seems to be.

This might be off topic, but wish Apple would focused on Finder performance (app loading, window refresh, etc) like this blog post by Microsoft.

And in case you're curious, my disk is only using 250GB in use (50GB for Apps, 150GB for System Data, 50GB for macOS)

[rudedogg]

The “Apps” app is so bad on macOS too (seems built off of Spotlight?). I’ll type the exact app name and it’ll suggest the one on my phone, an installer in Downloads, etc..

No one dog-fooded that thing.

[nitwit005]

Someone has realized the search results are insane, as there's at least one obvious fix buried in settings:

I open Finder, click on Applications, search "Google Chrome". Top results? MarketingAnalytics.yaml, aria-proptypes.md, and so on, from some project I cloned off of Github into my home directory at some point. I guess the file contents include "Google Chrome"?

Clearly insane, but under the "Advanced" finder settings, it's easy to find "Search the Current Folder". Suddenly, you get the result you'd expect.

[noahbp]

It’s incredible that “Search the Current Folder” is not the default, nor, as far as I’m aware, can it be made the default.

[c-hendricks]

> nor, as far as I’m aware, can it be made the default

Huh? You absolutely can, the post you're replying to says as much.

    defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope SCcf

[jshier]

No need for a default, you can set that in Finder’s settings.

[veber-alex]

Spotlight search is completely broken.

If I type "sa" the first result is Safari but if I type "safa" I get "Adguard for Safari.app".

In what world does this make sense?

[heavyset_go]

Finder is one of the worst pieces of software I've used and I have no confidence in Apple ever fixing it, or even being able to in theory.

[kombine]

I had to use MacOS recently and wasn't impressed by Finder. I am convinced that the best file manager on the market bar none is Dolphin from KDE software suite.

[heavyset_go]

Agreed. KDE apps are slowly getting feature parity between crossplatform builds, Kate's nearly there but Dolphin is still missing some features on macOS.

Hope there's a day I can just use Dolphin on any system

[miguel-muniz]

I've turned into a bit of a data hoarder lately, I have a folder with over 43k images. Finder and File Explorer both struggle to even open the folder and load all the thumbnails, but XnView MP can load the folder without much issues.

It's a shame the system file managers feel so ignored, I would love to manage collections of files and folders rather than putting all my data into dedicated black holes with better viewing features such as Raindrop.io, Apple Photos, and Eagle 4.

[embedding-shape]

If you're keeping them in just one directory on a drive I think you might run into filesystem limitations because it's just too many files in one directory, you'll have the same issue on Windows and Linux too. You potentially need to look into directory sharding, splitting it up a bit :)

[boromi]

Explorer.exe is far slower. It was one of the reasons I switched to macos after being a hardcore microsoft fan for many years. explorer would be so slow with fodlers that has a large number of files it would darastically impede my workflow. Macos is far superior IMO than windows when it comes to daily use efficiency.

[pndy]

I decided to tryout W11 in vm to see how it works in comparison to W10 and damn, current Explorer not only is slow but feels like taped together with at least 3 different UIs.

[taffydavid]

I switched to xplorer2 about twenty years ago and never looked back

[sitzkrieg]

explorer opens instantly on my windows desktop. i cannot replicate this on any mac.

[throwaway613746]

macos itself is sluggish af

I booted up an OLD imac stuck on 10.something, with an - I can't remember which gen - i5 and only 8gb of ram and I was blown away by how much it FLIES on that ancient hardware - even compared to my M1 Max Mac Studio

Apple Silicon is great. Everything else sucks.

[smallstepforman]

Well, they could have had BeOS instead of NeXTStep.

[IndrekR]

Jobs would have been lost with that move...

[msie]

I am skeptical.