Comment by fleshmonad

Comment by fleshmonad 4 days ago

Imagine paying for a file browser. This is why windows will always win. They have the most docile userbase ever. They'd rather pay 250 bucks for a file picker than to change OS.

MengerSponge 4 days ago

If you use software that is $10k/year and Windows only, a few bucks here and there to improve your quality of life is a rounding error

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antiframe 4 days ago

I wonder if a lot of Windows users are also BMW drivers. If they're willing to shrug off $250 a year to be able to copy files efficiently on their computers, they are likely also to applaud the wonders of $50 a month for heated seats.

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- delta_p_delta_x 3 days ago
  
  > BMW drivers
  £50 for a heated seat, perhaps, but you also get by far one of the best turbocharged inline-6 engines ever put in a 4-door saloon, the S58. Analogous to Windows NT, a well-engineered kernel.
  
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- MengerSponge 4 days ago
  
  $250 (currently $200) is a single perpetual license. Annually it's $40/yr.
  It's easy to lose a few minutes each day to Explorer shenanigans. For people making real money that adds up fast.
  
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yread 4 days ago

Hey Total Commander is free/shareware (if you can live with the nag screen) and superior to anything on any OS

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katsura 4 days ago

My solution to the nag screen was that I never turned off my computer, just put it to sleep, so Total Commander was always running.
Interestingly, TC was one of the few software that I considered paying for, but in the end I didn't because they asked for too much information at the time. Not long later I switched to Linux, and I couldn't use TC there.

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int_19h 4 days ago

This is more of a macOS thing.

Windows users just don't pay and keep using Explorer.

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