Just a week ago, we discussed Microsoft's efforts to enhance File Explorer performance by preloading the application at startup. Recent testing by Windows Latest suggests that this approach results in diminishing returns, as the application uses more RAM while offering only marginal performance impr...
  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    39·
    13 hours ago

    What the headline doesn’t say: It tested nearly double as slow as Windows 10’s File Explorer with this RAM usage increase.

    Windows is getting worse. Not better.

    • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      12 minutes ago

      I’ll never understand why file explorers are so resource intensive and so slow. they’re getting a list of file names, maybe pulling a thumbnail from cache. they don’t need to read the metadata of every file in the folder you’re looking at, certainly not before displaying a list of files.

      macos finder is even worse. i am often pausing for multiple seconds at the “file -> open” dialog

      I would like to use a file explorer which tries to be as lightweight as “ls -lF”

  • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
    11·
    10 hours ago

    They should just rollback to windows xp and patch the security issues. It happily ran on 128MB of ram.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      They sort if did this with Windoes Vista, but instead of fixing issues, they just removed a ton of vulnerable code, which resulted in a bunch of dropped features lol.

  • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    52·
    9 hours ago

    This is one area where I will agree with MS. 32 MB extra RAM consumption is worth it for even a moderate speed boost.

    That being said, the vast majority of modern applications run like shit. You have electron apps which are comically terrible in their performance metrics, but even beyond that you often have apps takeing up 100s of MBs and eating up a stupid amount of RAM considering what they do.

    • BrightCandle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      Making desktop applications has become a nightmare in anything but C or C# and that isn’t exactly a language people really want to be programming in these days. That is a big part of the problem there aren’t good GUI bindings for a lot of languages and most programmers nowadays have been building websites and working with GUI APIs is a huge step back.

      Everyone is preferring server/web solutions now as its easier to charge customers for it and keep it up to date and the knock on consequence is desktop app support isn’t great or considered important.

    • Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      8 hours ago

      I also agree, but … it’s an attitude that gets you in trouble fast and it only works once. Throwing hardware at a problem never works for very long, and hardly ever gets you the order of magnitude increases that reevaluated algorithms and data structures will get you. No amount of hardware gets you past an O(n^2) for long.

    • IonTempted@lemmynsfw.comOPEnglish
      7·
      17 hours ago

      It might be one of those placebo feelings, but I think my PC is running slightly worse and I’m working on a video right now I need to edit with Premiere so I’m thinking of formatting my PC, I haven’t done so in many years.

      • Melonpoly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        17 hours ago

        I mean, Premiere is known to be a buggy mess. I have no idea why companies still force people to use it when Resolve exists. Good luck to you sir.

      • Axolotl@feddit.itEnglish
        7·
        16 hours ago

        If you are not forced to use premiere then use Davinci resolve and if you think it’s good and still worried about performance you might want to try Linux. Though you should do it only if not satisfied with your current system

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 hours ago

          Resolve has some quirks on Linux. In particular it doesn’t support certain codecs.

    • Codilingus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I used to be an xlite fan, but have since discovered 11 IoT Enterprise LSTC. massgrave.dev

      Same idea of bullshit free, but more stable and straight from M$, themselves. Defender and Edge ONLY.

      Then install StartAllBack on top of that. Everything feels sane, and snappy and back to sanity.

      • nullroot@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        22 minutes ago

        I did windows 10 ltsc for a very long time but I dropped eventually because I was tired of having issues with my video card and random unexplained crashes with vague event viewer info they no one had find reliable fixes to. Mass grave seems super nifty though, saving that link, maybe I give 11 iot a try but I’m feeling pretty burnt

    • nullroot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      I love/hate their website. It reminds me of early 00 warez sites, but, as you say and testers report, it does a good job debloating and speeding things up. I’m so fed up with windows at this point I’m not sure a slimmed down and or privacy focused windows install will cut it. I’m this close to taking the dive and going to daily driving Linux.