xbox green (quokk.au)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/y2k_memes
 
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[–] 52 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I don't even need something as cool as this, but can we please start prioritizing non laggy UIs again!?

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Recently had to work with someone who's on Windows 11 and every time they opened the file manager, it took two seconds to render the toolbar. Like, what the fuck, that's just some buttons with icons. It should take a singular frame to render that, not two seconds. How do you even begin to fuck up the implementation so bad that it could possibly take this long?

    I just needed to rant, but I guess, if you want to take something away from this, then: Don't put your hope on Microsoft.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    They probably reimplemented Explorer as an electron app

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    I have the horrible feeling that they even specifically start an HTML renderer for that toolbar itself, because the rest of the application appears fairly quickly.
    Well, and because you would typically share the code for rendering the file manager contents with the code for displaying the desktop icons.

    So, in hopes that they did not rewrite the desktop icons in React, nor now ship two implementations for rendering those icons, I choose to believe that they built a horrible Frankenstein file manager instead. 🫠

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