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RecluseRamble ,

It must be a really deeply integrated part of the Windows kernel because it has never been able to show progress properly.

Back in the days of floppy disks it always felt that actual copying started when the progress showed 100%.

Sneptaur ,
@Sneptaur@pawb.social avatar

Something something Linux something something Windows bad something something proprietary

marcos ,

Yes, but unironically.

It’s amazing how much pain Windows users will endure just for the privilege of…

well, something probably.

MacedWindow ,
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This is only the beginning

Pyro , (edited )

It’s especially bad when it’s stuck like that for hours, and you have to make a gamble with a force restart.

bleistift2 OP ,

Spinners must die. I don’t care if I don’t understand what exactly you’re doing, Windows, (I’d be surprised if you knew), but show me something, anything about the steps you’re currently doing, so I can guess if you’re doing something at all.

sp3tr4l ,

They could actually show you a command prompt / terminal readout, which shows warnings and errors when things just outright fail and the process is borked… but that would scare people, apparently.

Anticorp ,

LOL, yup! I was just going to reply that people find that scary, and then got to your last sentence. Idk why it scares people. I love seeing the output.

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