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If windows is not responding error it's an app bug and not a windows bug. I have to swap between windows and mac all the time and both are perfectly usable when you have enough memory for your given task, and that is 95% an app issue as too many modern apps drink memory like they just came out of the Sahara.


I've had explorer.exe crash many many times.


Explorer hosts a million plugins for everything that wants to do things like add a menu entry to the desktop right click menu, and each of them can crash or hang Explorer.

It’s just a terrible design.


Wait until you hear how Finder handles things, I honestly couldn't believe my ears the first time I asked "why can't I close the filepicker?"


Can you explain?


There’s similar interfaces for Finder for things like Dropbox, except not every mouse driver has a plug-in and if it turns out the model is problematic, like on Windows, Apple has no issues with repairing it and forcing the plugins to update.

Backwards compatibility is nice but it drags you down.


Explorer is pretty stable if you don't have any shell add-ins loaded.




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