On: The Finder’s GUI tax can be very expensive

[Piskvorrr]

For a tool that's supposed to be on most desktops by default, Explorer has some strange inefficiencies, such as the estimation and the loooong "preparing to copy" phase. Perhaps they are carried over from the old Windows NT codebase?

[wruza → Piskvorrr]

Of course they are. MS is biggest visual theme seller on the planet.

[3r1kB → Piskvorrr]

Reminds me of this XKCD haha https://xkcd.com/612/