They took a real punch to the gut when File Pilot rolled out and showed them what their own devs should have been doing.
replyDirectory Opus has been doing that for decades.
replyI'm sure it did, but that app looks like a Win XP-era app (not even Win7). FilePilot is fast, looks good & feels modern (support a command palette, fuzzy search, etc). The only downside is that it runs on the GPU and so running it inside a VM is a bit of a hassle.
replyYou can completely customize how it looks.
replyHadn't heard that name since the Amiga days and had no idea it was still around!
replyTook the beta for a quick spin and... wow, the speed is truly astonishing!
replyWindows doesn't feel slow because the kernel or the filesystem is inherently "that" slow, it feels like a sloth overdosing on heroin because nobody at Microsoft gives the slightest crap about making it even a tiny bit faster.
It's staggering how the instant you double-click a file in File Pilot you're... back in the tar pit. (The Windows image preview app just spins... and spins... while it does God-knows-what with my CPUs.)
The contrast of going from one to the other makes the quality difference glaringly obvious.