• pedz@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    Many many years ago, it’s one of the things that made me switch to Linux. Moving and renaming files while using them was kind of a game changer.

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      7 months ago

      That open file lock shit is terrible. You can’t even attach a word document in an email if it’s opened. The windows ui is painfully slow even on capable hardware which makes dealing with this even worse. KDE is so fast, ui stuff finishes happening faster than my finger can complete the “click” motion.

      It’s always blown my mind how game developers are ever able to get anything done working like this. A game development workflow, working with lots of different folders and different files open in different programs is exactly the type of workflow the windows ui is so bad at. Guess that explains things.

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        7 months ago

        I recently used mv on a folder containing a massive quantity and size of files, and it completed the operation in like a second. I’m used to windows taking forever to do the same thing

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          7 months ago

          I think this is because in windows the file is physically moved on disk. In Linux the pointer is changed but the file is not moved physically on disk