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Sort of a side note: Exceptional Mac programs are often showcased and awarded. Either by Apple or others in the Mac “community”. Is there example from the Windows side? Programs that highlight the very best the Windows platform can deliver?
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That’s sort of my take as well. I can’t think of a single Windows program that would wish was available to me on the Mac or Linux. You never hear a company advertising that their product is only feasable thanks to the features provided in the .Net framework, or that their application takes advantage of the foundation provided by Windows. I not saying that Windows is bad, it’s a truck, meant for business, and games. I…
TLDR; My main question for you - What kinds of programs do you think could only exist on a Mac or Linux which could not possibly work on Windows? > You never hear a company advertising that their product is only feasable thanks to the features provided in the .Net framework... Yes you do. There are whole companies (and publications) that only exist thanks to the .NET framework and before that, Visual Basic. How many…
macOS supports Finder extensions: https://langui.net/snailgit/
I wonder why the author recommend winget but not scoop. Scoop obviously has more community support and that's the most important part of a package manager (more packages, more frequent update, etc).
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I tend to use WizTree for local NTFS volumes where it's MFT analysis benefit is present, it can be so much faster it almost seems like magic. For everything else on Windows (network mounts, fat/exfat) I currently use Space Sniffer ( http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/ ) One thing issue with WizTree is that drawing the result is slow for large trees (a volume with a great many files spread over a the str…
How slow are you experiencing? For me, I think it rarely takes more than 2 or 3 seconds for the entire drive. Great program, free, but I donated.
Having retested not I have local access to that filesystem again, the issue seems to be when used remote via RDC, even over a local wifi network. Running properly local the delay goes away in even the pathological case.
As SpaceSniffer has no similar bad slow-down on display updates, I assume that means how WizTree draws interacts badly with the remoting protocol: either it is drawing in small steps and RDC is trying to send each update out individually so many small updates are going over the wire, or the 3D-ish look is causing issues, or both.
Is 7zip really a good format for sharing data? I also use the program for unpacking and I like the context menu integration. However when I send files, I prefer zip because I feel like this is easiest for the recipient to open (no matter if they are using windows, linux, osx, Android...).