Explorer already crashes enough without this.
Why don't they work on Explorer's awful performance and constant hanging before working in another chatbot?
You know, useful software development work?
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2026
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But much agentics tho.
Because there aren’t any developers in charge any more. At places like MS and Google now promotions are given to people who make a big splash. Fixing a bug doesn’t get attention.
I can already see them brainstorming how to put that stuff in the calculator app.
At least, they don't put it into the event viewer, because its source code has never seen a change. Looks like 10 years ago and the performance is as bad as then.
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Is microsoft secretly run by linux evangelists?
It’s been surreal watching my technically-inclined friends switch.
ive run dual boot systems to prolong the life of older lenovo notebooks, leaving windows up for some proprietary software id need for work.. if this comes to pass though, im fucking GONE. Ill sooner use macOS than anything with a fucking llm looking at the files on my hard drive 👉
Microslop*
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Soon in the Microslop support forums: "Please help, I asked Copilot for the photos of my late grandma and it deleted my entire C drive".
The agent has decided you need more OneDrive storage. Your credit card will be charged. If you disagree with the agent, grandma's pictures will be deleted. Comply and rent Batman the Dark Knight Arises on the Windows Store.
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I have to use Windows 11 for my school computer, not allowed to change the OS. I didn't realize how shit awful explorer had gotten between 10 and 11. For anyone reading this who has to use 11: there are explorer alternatives. I use OneCommander and it let me change the default explorer for shortcuts and when other programs bring things up like with "show in folder" options. I don't have to use windows explorer anymore and while it's no Linux at least it doesn't have fucking copilot and it gives me back basic control
I also found this project that tries to restore the old start menu and explorer:
My father always used Total Commander, the default explorer has always been lame
It may not be helpful enough and getting on in age (maybe others know of something similar), but there is a mod called OldNewExplorer that you can run and choose to modify a few elements of Explorer. I've used it to change the details pane from the side back to the bottom of the window.
Gotta pump up those usage numbers somehow. Before long, it'll be on the login screen
ALL YOUR DIRECTORY ARE BELONG TO US
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE TO PRIVATE
MAKE YOUR TIME
Yeah I felt a bit more clever this time, than just repeating, for the umpteenth time on stories like this, over the last year or so:
... People still use MSFT products?
Yeah I keep making that exact same comment... its been really easy, as a former MSFT employee, to see where this train has been headed.
MSFT is a cult, ok?
Thats the only way to explain/describe management and C Suite.
And they've been like that for at least a decade.
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It's metastasizing. There must really be big profit and privacy-invading upsides for MS in this whole mess, since it sure as shit is not being driven by consumer demand.
I wonder how many surveillance dollars are going into that company that isn’t publicly known.
Imagine knowing what every user is doing? What they read, what they play? What pictures they take? What websites they prefer? Where they get their news? Who they speak with? Their social graph? Where they shop? How often? What their finances look like? Who they work for? What they do for them? How connected they are? How that company is doing? What their quarterly report look like before they make it public? What their plans are for those upcoming layoffs? Who they do business with for importing? What the next big thing they’re designing is?
What Microsoft is attempting to do is to create a planned economy that only benefits the rich. They’re trying to do the thing they always complain is bad about Communism, but do it in a way that gives the rich people control.
We are living in a trap and Microsoft must be eradicated from all computers and networks. OpenAI too.
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Stopped using Explorer long time ago. They were unable to implement tabs and color coding of files for the last 30 years. Just use Directory Opus.
Just what I want: file explorer to load even slower than it does now.
Mhm. Shit people don't want continues to be integrated into required system applications so you cannot remove/avoid it.
Seen it comming since the integration of Edge into Windows and how it's forcibly re-installed everytime you try to remove it. Hell; even the corporate work PCs I use, which lock you out of every non-corporate supplied application such as wordpad, calculator and even the ability to see (not even modify, just view) the desktop background: failed to disable Edge (their default is Chrome). You can right click files > open with > Edge (none of the other applications listed work in any other circumstances, just edge and chrome).
Windows is dead.
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Not beating the cancer/parasite allegations
It’s really sad to me that everyone sees this as just an annoying superfluous feature.
Doesn’t anyone else see why Microsoft is so fucking horny for this???
It’s a fucking panopticon! They’re trying to look at everything you produce and save (OneDrive) and now they’re trying to get their hands on what you think (what you ask Copilot) and the conclusions you come to (Copilot’s generated response).
They can know and control anything they want. Imagine how deep that goes? This is way beyond fucking banner ads. This is about picking and choosing winners in the global economy. This is about knowing who will fall before they do and hedging. This is about industrial espionage and being first to market. This is about silencing all political dissidents before they even speak publicly. This is true, actual, corporate dystopian shit. This is Minority Report but janky, and privatized.
This needs to be stopped.
So glad I made the switch to Linux recently. Kept putting it off because of one pet project, but managed to get it working on Linux. My Explorer on Windows had a very noticeable memory leak.
You can do that Microslop. It’s not exactly possible for me to not use your software even harder at this point.
How long until it starts deleting files at random. Or uploading their content to MS servers. You're screwed if you're on Windows at this point.
It does this already.
No regrets on switching to Linux here. Almost all of the time I just use the GUI to launch steam or Firefox. No AI nagging me (aside from whatever nonsense Firefox is up to)
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