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On 10/19/2024 6:12 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:03:51 -0400, DFS wrote:
> 
>> On 10/18/2024 8:43 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:54:41 -0400, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> So 100,000 files should be ~6 minutes.
>>>
>>> Try it and see.
>>
>> No.  It takes a long time to delete 100K small files on Windows.
>>
>> I don't like polluting my system with that much extraneous junk.
> 
> Gee, that’s too bad. It’s easy to run that kind of test on Linux: create a
> temp directory to do all your experimentation in. And then just a simple
> “rm -rf” afterwards, and all the “extraneous junk” is gone.
> 
> Seems like you’re admitting that, on Dimdows, getting rid of the after-
> effects of this “extraneous junk” isn’t so easy ...


I always forget to bypass the Recycle Bin: just hold down Shift + Delete.

temp_txt folder containing 100K text files deleted in about 10 seconds

If you go the Recycle Bin route, it's painfully slow to move the 100K 
files to the RB, then even more painfully slow to delete them from RB. 
Probably 5 minutes total.  Absurd.




> The Steam Deck is eating Windows’ lunch.


There would be no Steam Deck if Valve didn't grow so big and profitable 
on the backs of Windows gamers.  The GuhNoo/Linux community is a charity 
case that has always profited from the enormous installed base of 
Windows users funding generations of hardware.  Huge volumes of Windows 
purchasers since May 1990 allowed vendors to achieve economies of scale 
and low hardware prices.  Apple or Linux could never have achieved this.

That is all economic fact.

So you're welcome for that cheap HDD and SSD and memory and power supply 
I helped make happen by buying hardware to run Windows on for decades.