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Imagine paying for a file browser. This is why windows will always win. They have the most docile userbase ever. They'd rather pay 250 bucks for a file picker t
by fleshmonad 8mo ago
Imagine paying for a file browser. This is why windows will always win. They have the most docile userbase ever. They'd rather pay 250 bucks for a file picker than to change OS.
- MengerSponge 8mo agoIf you use software that is $10k/year and Windows only, a few bucks here and there to improve your quality of life is a rounding error
- antiframe 8mo agoI wonder if a lot of Windows users are also BMW drivers. If they're willing to shrug off $250 a year to be able to copy files efficiently on their computers, they are likely also to applaud the wonders of $50 a month for heated seats.
- MengerSponge 8mo ago$250 (currently $200) is a single perpetual license. Annually it's $40/yr. It's easy to lose a few minutes each day to Explorer shenanigans. For people making real money that adds up fast.
- delta_p_delta_x 8mo ago> BMW drivers £50 for a heated seat, perhaps, but you also get by far one of the best turbocharged inline-6 engines ever put in a 4-door saloon, the S58. Analogous to Windows NT, a well-engineered kernel.
- yread 8mo agoHey Total Commander is free/shareware (if you can live with the nag screen) and superior to anything on any OS
- katsura 8mo agoMy solution to the nag screen was that I never turned off my computer, just put it to sleep, so Total Commander was always running. Interestingly, TC was one of the few software that I considered paying for, but in the end I didn't because they asked for too much information at the time. Not long later I switched to Linux, and I couldn't use TC there.
- int_19h 8mo agoThis is more of a macOS thing. Windows users just don't pay and keep using Explorer.