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The only reason windows file explorer opens in sub 3 seconds is because it's bundled with the desktop and taskbar.
If I had know this before...
One thing where Windows has an advantage over KDE for non IT people, is applications can directly access network shares. Most KDE applications don't even show the network in the file browse selector. So for sync or backup apps it only works with mounted shares. Which isn't necessary in Windows. To mount a share in KDE it's convoluted and a hack that is no good non IT users. If they expect good usability.
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It's obviously RB but there's some truth in there. I remember back in like 2008 when I was first introduced to Linux, kinda felt like magic that there was another OS besides windows and Mac. I had an old powerPC iBook collecting dust that I installed Ubuntu on. Honestly I was just toying around with it for a few weeks. I remember being confused by a lot of things kinda like this post and honestly not even knowing where to look for information, what terms to put into the search. I just clicked around and essentially broke shit and reinstalled.
I forgot about Linux for a while until my Intel Mac mini fell out of support so I installed Ubuntu around and 2010 full time on my main machine. The good megaupload and Netflix as a DVD service days.
I ended up distro hopping to nearly everything. Ended up getting that old PPC laptop up and running again with a version of puppy Linux. I got really into light weight distros and minimal UI's with all my own cli scripts for everything, mps-yt for YouTube, made my own script for 8tracks, for web scraping and so on. Lots of pipe menus for everything, weather, calendar events and so on. Although these days I just run Fedora, have been thinking of switching to an immutable base with a container for everything I need to install besides flatpaks. Vanilla OS looked like a cool project but it's not mature yet, same with pop cosmic.
A mature cosmic UI on something like vanilla OS with an Ubuntu and an arch container for software that isn't available as a flatpak or otherwise doesn't work well as a flatpak I think would be my ultimate if and when they become mature.
I am lookimg at the comments and laughing. I have a low end pc, with nvidia and intel. Ya all behave as if linux was some peak of programming...and heck, maybe it is, dunno.
But installing Windows 10 vs CachyOS/Mint/Nobara took similiar time. Speed is the same, explorers too. On Cachy and Mint, compatibility was also the same (Nobara did not like my hardware). All in all, both Linux and Windows were fast and reliable (except Nobara, again, hardware issues).
Yet ya all grab edge cases and try to make it appear as it's normal xD And this applies to both linux and windows folk, altho I do admit there a lot more linux folk here. But both sides grasp at edge case problems and pretend it's norm lol xD
From noob PoV, Cachy = Mint = Windows 10 usability wise. I'd switch to Cachy if not for the fact only Windows can squeeze last drops of my hardware juice T-T (I love Plasma desktop, even if wallet pisses me off)