I am using Linux for more than a year now and feel liberated from the Windows trap. Lately, Windows has become too slow in terms of even copy operations.
Looks to be a long reading. I think I can skip a few chapters .
The dominant operation is recalling how to copy something and actually going through the steps to copy it, not anything related to disk IO. At least, as people experience it it is.
Depending on what kind of storage devices are being used, I have observed very slow file transfers in Windows Explorer versus the Windows command-line copy command.