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Windows 10 Is Finally Adding Tabs To File Explorer (bleepingcomputer.com)
Microsoft has released insider preview build 17618 that includes tabs in File Explorer as part of its Sets feature. Bleeping Computer reports: Windows 10 Sets is an upcoming feature where you can group documents and apps into one tabbed window that are related to the particular task at hand. This feature was released for testing to a small controlled group of insiders in Insider Preview Build 17063 and was subsequently removed after the test. With build 17618, Sets are back and with it come tabs in File Explorer. You can now open different folders in the same File Explorer window with each one having their own tabs. This way one File Explorer window can have a tab for the pictures folder, a tab for the documents folder, and a tab for your documents, which you can easily switch between. If you look closely, though, the Sets feature does more than just allow you to have different tabs for different folders, but also allows you to add applications as a tab in File Explorer. According to Microsoft, in addition to File Explorer, Notepad, Command Prompt, and Powershell are also getting tabbed support.
Nomad.NET is a way better file manager.
Also, it doesn't spy on you, steal your bandwidth or serve you ads like Microsoft's garbage does.
http://www.nomad-net.info/
Every other file manager has it.
what we need is control of OUR computer back. updates when WE WANT THEM, not when you insist upon slowing down our internet, consuming our precious quotas, and rebooting whenever the fuck you want.
fuck, just today, we had a pc launch the "upgrade assistant' which went and started downloading fcu while windows update was also already downloading it... attempts to remove the "assistant" were met with it magically reappearing over and over, even after reboots, and, yes, downloading the 4 fucking gigabytes itself over a metered connection again with windows update's own download of the same damn thing. we had to disconnect the pc from the internet, manually download the installer to a usb drive on a different pc, and run the 'upgrade' from that removable drive instead.
we also want absolute and full transparency (i hate that term, but it applies here) on exactly what data you're gathering on us, and allowing us absolute and full control to turn that spying shit off.
Why are the tabs at the TOP of the window in the title bar? That's a HORRIBLE design.
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It's going to take more than tabs to make it useful. I don't know if it's the Windows 10 file structure or the file manager but it has become very difficult to find anything on my drive since "upgrading" to Windows 10. Stuff seems to get randomly stashed in any of numerous Documents Folders.
Midnight Commander in Linux is my favorite Go To file manager for doing all my heavy lifting, moving and unpacking source code, editing and viewing files, (has excellent syntax highlighting) i love mc.
when a good double pane file manager with an excellent built in text editor comes to windows post an article on slashdot, because windows explorer is so 1990's
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ALL innovation is copying.
Most involves making a new combination of previously existing constructions or works.
Even the iPhone copied features from previous phones and PDAs, it just refined them and made them cool.
It's not necessary to have such large updates, or to reboot during updates. Microsoft explicitly and deliberately forced that upon the world, and have consequently been responsible for more wasted man-hours than really bear contemplation. This happened some decades ago, however, and it's generally widely known. So if you are choosing to run this software, you are signing up for the upgrade hassle, and various viruses, and (in the modern era) some degree of surveillance. If you are regretting that decision, you might seek alternatives. You're probably not going to get much sympathy for your problems, however.
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Also, web browsers, which are at least theoretically the same thing.
This is not the same thing at all.
If you look at their video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You can see that they can have completely different applications in the tabs. In one tab you can have a word processor, in another a command prompt and in another a web browser, all in the same window.
Sure, it is obviously inspired by browsers, but this improves upon that by having more than just browsers together.
Neither my mac or my linux box can do that. There is innovation here.
"I have never nor have I witnessed anyone who has had a driver issue with linux." You're either fucking young, fucking inexperienced, or don't have any fucking friends. Making statements like that just exposes your inexperience, not expertise.
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Actually games on linux which have a counterpart on windows often see performance boosts when run on linux. The key is the operating system, windows has a rather thick overhead and that interferes with game performance, linux by contrast has a very low overhead due to its nature and even when the overhead of wine is factored in produce superior frame rates. I am not really sure what windows is doing in the background but I assume it is its nature of spying and advertising along with poor programming that leads to its inevitable poorer performance.
In terms of GPU performance you can get native drivers from both nVidia and AMD for linux, also nVidia and AMD drivers are available in all deb repositories. They are proprietary but if you go to the drivers options you can enable them though by default open source drivers are set to enabled and work quite well.
You could group multiple applications in a single, tabbed window in KDE4.
regular man whom love computer (Also, fuck beta).
How about instead of useless crap, my be get rid of that ribbon garbage. That would be much more useful. Seriously, who thinks searching trough a bunch of tabs is easier that just clicking on a drop down menu. Having a few often used items in a toolbar is nice, but having EVERYTHTING in a tool bar is just idiotic. They even have things hidden in drop down menus from the toolbar icons in some of their apps. Pure idiocy!
Ah, yes, Linux. The operating system that has been just around the corner from taking over the desktop for only 30 (?) years now. Gonna happen any day. Wait, don't they still have less market share than macs? Maybe if they only had one version or there was some effort made to make sure all software was compatible with all versions of the os. The last time I looked I would have had to use 4 or more versions of the os to use the programs I was looking at because each of them had issues with different Linux distros. I'll be sticking with windows 7 for the foreseeable future. Maybe when widows 11 comes out things will be better (yeah, I know) .
"I have never nor have I witnessed anyone who has had a driver issue with linux."
You're either fucking young, fucking inexperienced, or don't have any fucking friends.
Making statements like that just exposes your inexperience, not expertise.
I have not observed or witnessed anyone with a driver issue on Linux... In the last 10 years. It happened frequently in the olden days though.
When I bought a new sound card (to get better isolation from CPU noise), it worked out of the box on Linux, but needed a manually installed driver on Windows.. And it was using a standard AC/97 sound-chip protocol. Windows is terrible with drivers compared to Linux these days.