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Windows 11 Explorer Issues Are Seriously Making Power Users Consider Linux
Hello Microsoft, I would genuinely like to understand how a company with Microsoft’s engineering resources managed to break one of the most fundamental components of an operating system — File Ex...
I get the frustration. On hardware like that, Explorer hanging on basic file operations really does point more to Windows 11’s Explorer layer and recent UI changes than to raw system performance.
The middle-click behavior disappearing and the newer tabbed Explorer feeling slower are both the kind of regressions that annoy power users fast. Your request is reasonable: a classic, lightweight Explorer option without the newer WinUI-heavy layer would make a lot of sense.