>be on linux>dolphin crashes every once in a while>"whatever, it'll just restart and restore my last session">be on windows>explorer.exe crashes daily>takes down my entire desktop, taskbar and start menu with it>previously open folders are all lostMore and more I realise that Windows is the actual tinkerer OS
>explorer.exe crashes dailyOnly once a day? Since when?
>explorer.exe crashes dailyI had a crash yesterday. But is more like monthly not daily.
Do one thing and do it wellVSDo a billion things and fuck them all up
>>108580226Go run memtest for a few hours, your pc is fucked.
>>108580226>Move a big file>Explorer decides to restart and kill the moving file and all the desktop environment with itThis happened many times when I used windows. I hate many aspects from Linux file managers but they are not as retarded as the default windows one.
>>108580355>the thing that isn't a problem on linux is actually the fault of your ram
>>108580413>dolphin crashes every once in a whileDo you know ho many times have dolphin crashed for me in the last 2 years?1 and was not cause of dolphin but cause kde connect.If explorer and dolphin crashes you better check your hardware, that's not normal.
>>10858041313 hours of 1usmus minimum.
>>108580226yea on windows 11 id constantly get file explorer freezing, it would show the blue thingy when I opened an external drive or transferred files and got stuck like that. It was also slow and didn't open folders instantly. All these issues went away on Linux / KDE
>>108580435>All these issues went away on Linux / KDESee, this looks like an explorer issueBut OP crashing LESS might be cause their linux install is using less ram making it harder to hit the bad part of his ram.
>>108580226>More and more I realise that Windows is the actual tinkerer OSI've noticed this too, to do anything other than browse the web or game on Windows 11 you actually have to do more tinkering than on a decent and well chosen Linux distro.>>108580241Since they started vibecoding it in javascript.
>>108580435windows fucking sucks with an external drive attached unless you never let it spin down/sleep. mousing over the drive's icon momentarily when drag and dropping a file somewhere unrelated will completely freeze explorer while the ol' easystore chugs back to life and random programs will completely freeze either at startup or when opening the save dialog trying to read data from the drive if there's a file from there in their recent files list or whateveri feel like an attached drive being in a sleeping state can't be so rare that this case should be so poorly supported but apparently it is.
>>108580226I can’t load my vanilla Fallout 4 savefile on Windows at all. Tried between OS installations, both 10 and 11. Every time it will CTD after less than a minuteLinux? Zero problems between every distro i tried just werkz.Also let’s talk about Shitdows holding any external storage you mount hostage with god knows whats (defender? Search indexer) not letting you unmount it without risking file corruption. Again, just works on Linux
>>108580821fallout 4 crashing to desktop was specifically what made my memory instability clear.
>>108580382tbf I would never trust a file manager with this kind of task. I'd use rsync in tmux
>>108581222>I would never trust a file manager with managing filesThe absolute state of CLI trannies.
>>108580226all desktop and smartphone OSes are hot garbage, we will never have good user experience with these devices.>>108580241I move big files around, explorer.exe hangs and then crashes all the fucking timealso if you open around 200 folders in a row it will crash, I can reproduce it in windows 10 up to the latest windows 11>>108580284define one thing.>>108580355not op but I can confirm that explorer.exe crashes a lot.>>108581660>The absolute state of CLI trannies.you mean the absolute state of GUI file explorers, they're all equally trash
>>108581861It might be but getting crashes on other OS with a different file manager is not a good signal.Running memtest will only help him find a problem is there's any, I stand on my advice.
>>108580226frequently in explorer.exe I can scroll in a folder, but mouse input doesnt work anymore, I cant select a folder. this is only in that specific window of explorer, its infuriating. tranny electron OS
>dolphinStop playing gay bloated Smash mods
>>108580355I've been regularly using Windows operating systems since Windows XP and every single major Windows version had this issue of explorer.exe randomly crashing and taking out everything on desktop. At least in the older versions explorer.exe would restart, so from a user's point of you it would seem like the computer did a little refresh of the taskbar/desktop etc. Though sometimes the autorestart would break and you would need to manually execute explorer.exe from Run As or from the Task Manager.
>>108582712You missed the part that it still get crashes, albeit fewer, in another totally different OS and file manager.that's concerning.
>>108580226You can separate explorer's instances so if it crashes it only crashes that specific one.
explorer.exe shouldn't be crashing in 2026. yes its a piece of shit program riddles with dpc latency and slowness but it should never crash. crashing means you have a dism/sfc issue or driver problem (windows is hw accelerated out the ass)
>>108580226Is anyone else’s network locations absolutely broken on win 11? I’m trying to disconnect from one of my servers, however it doesn’t even appear in netuse, but I can still browse it in explorer
>>108582728 (me)In the Task Manager it will look something like this.
>>108580226
>>108582723The only times the entirety of KDE krashed on me was when I was doing multimonitor+different resolutions/refresh rates+FreeSync+HDR/SDR+random monitors connecting disconnecting all at the same time and KDE codebase wasn't mature enough to handle all that shit. But it's been years I've had KDE crash on me even after stressing it with my weird setup and even adding more retarded monitors just for the lulz.Dolphin has been crashing more frequently, but most times it's caused by forcing Dolphin to handle multiple low speed high latency media, like one SMB server on 1 tab copying something from an SFTP server to another tab, followed by an HDD trying to process, view, thumbnail 100GB video files and trying to delete some files from a smartphone with KDEConnect all at the same time. After I tried to do something on the aforementioned HDD again it hang and it crashed. Seems Dolphin devs haven't solved the issue of high latency storage sources hanging the entire application... Kinda sloppy ngl
>>108582755Why didn't they enable it by default lmao...
>>108580226I have never had Explorer crash on Windows, that includes going back to Vista, XP SP2, or even the widely incompatible XP x64.
>>108582809It might be an experimental feature, or the ram overhead doesn't justify enabling it by default.
>>108582809a lot of defaults in windows are laptop/powersaving focused. for instance the cpu timer resolution is 15ms and only drops down to 1ms when it detects a game or audio. this is why opening windows media player for game servers drastically improves latency and i/o.
In 20 years I can't recall a single instance of explorer crashing.
>>108582947Are you serious?
>>108581861>open around 200 folders in a rowUsecase?Only did that as a mistake twice in my life
>>108582947it will crash usually after a major windows update because of shader cache issues
>>108580226>explorer.exe crashes dailywut>>previously open folders are all lostlul user issue
>>108582947Do you just not use your computer?
>>108582928>this is why opening windows media player for game servers drastically improves latency and i/o.what the fuck
>>108583304This used to be in Valves dedicated server documentation>Unfortunately, both of these servers will not achieve these FPS settings on a Win32 platform without one tweak. In order for the server to get service from the operating system, there must be a high-resolution timer running. Normally, the operating system runs a low resolution timer that is only good for a max of maybe 100FPS.>Running Media Player (you need not play a file, just have it sitting there open) will force the operating system to use a high-res times that will give your server the capability of running up to 1000FPS. Media Player requires about 5MB while in idle, so it offers relatively low overhead for this improvement. You can also run a Macromedia SWF file in Internet Explore and it will do the same thing.
Works fine for me.
>>108583325Thanks, that's interesting.
>>108582970>Usecase?hand edit multiple files that can't be automated.and no, AI can't help me, I've tried them all and it's not doing what I want them to do, i'm working on a C++ solution to reduce the amount of work so it takes a few hours instead of a few days.
my windows tinker tranny OS story:>PCI wireless card stopped working well>bought a USB card to replace it>disable the PCI one and just use the USB one>driver updates for the PCI card randomly come into update>it re-enables the PCI card and blue screens the OS everytimeall of this after removing all of the junk preinstalled, debloating edge, spending 2 hours getting all the cumulative updates because MS is too lazy to update the ISO, etc.yeah nah im good
Oh the irony of people switching to Linux because they are sick of fixing their OS
>>108582739Check the actual protocol. Microsoft has all kinds of transparent auto-redirection to WebDAV and other global protocols for file clients.
>>108580226All your issues could be instantly solved by dumping dolphin and using thunar instead.
>>108581861Are you using an AV?
dolphin is alright, but if you don't use the advanced features, try pcmanfm. just werks.
>>108584077My only gripe with thunar is that it acts retarded when I'm on a VPN. I guess it's trying to connect to my home NAS that is bookmarked, fails, and doesn't know what to do.I solved it like a mature human being - installed caja for when I'm on a VPN.
>>108584079No.it has nothing to do with that though, I can reproduce the bug on any version of windows from the last decade.
>>108584077It doesn't have type-to-select like Dolphin/Windows Explorer; it only has type-to-search.
>>108584390Now that you mention type to select, have you tried dolphin filter? it's great too.
Works on my machine.
>>108580226>Work for company with production Windows server>Serves millions of customers daily>12 employees have server accounts>It keeps a running explorer.exe process for every employee account, even when they aren't logged in>Each one eats up 30MB of RAM
>>108584579whats up with the vending machine iconsi keep seeing these in software
>>108584598>30x12=360Truly a tragedy
>>108584599Haaaaa, funnyyyyhttps://www.ghisler.com/
>>108583904>hand edit multiple files that can't be automatedWut. What type of file renaming are you doing that can't be automated by a script?
>>108584646>anon from 4chan sends shady linki'm not clicking that lmaooo
>>108584649it's not file renaming, I modify the content of the files, image, text, raw binary, i have to do it by hand because it's different for each file
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>>108584686lol triggered
>>108580382Yeah I always copy if it's moving from one drive to another just because I can't trust any of them to not fuck it up. Then delete after verifying
>>108583929Ran into this too, multiple times. Whenever you install 2 of the same type of device, Windows can't decide which one to use on boot, so it BSODs...instead of saying>"Yo bro, which one of these do you want to use?"You have to boot in safe mode and go manually disable the one you don't want for future boots.Got another fun one>Open a file in notepad.exe>Change the filename while notepad is running>Notepad crashes along with the whole Windows UI
Ctrl + Shift + Alt + Windows Key + Lthanks microsoft
>>108584610It actually is. The server only has 8GB of RAM and slows to a crawl during peak because it hits the RAM limit.
>>108583929I had some wifi card issues that were so fucking bad on windows, that I researched for weeks, and discovered like 25 different settings baked into the OS that can affect them like hidden power saving features and other retarded registry bullshit which will just cause your wifi to randomly disconnect/reconnect/shut down completely in windows that I actually just switched back to ethernet. It was actually so brutal and what's even worse is my ubuntu install on the same machine had 0 problems with the 3 cards i tried.
>>108584783Damn. Do you not have an extra stick of ram?
>>108584802I had Mint drop wifi randomly every several minutes after an update.Traced it to the driver and had to downgrade and freeze it.
>>108584831I dont think any pc issue is as frustrating especially because to test it, you have to just go about your business as normal, and then suddenly whatever you're doing is now discconected and you see that insufferable reconnecting icon and it just doesn't reconnect and then you have to fumble around with the POS to get it back up and running and now instead of doing what you were doing, you're desperately trying to troubleshoot as fast as you can to see if you can figure out what it is that's causing it. I will 100% be buying a mobo with built in wifi in the future from now on and will always keep a 50ft ethernet cable on hand just in case
>>108584802yeah theres so much weird shit with wifi on windows. you go down endless rabbit holes trying to figure out if its a USB port issue, some random setting issue, driver issuejust works on linuxalso used to use WSL years ago and the speeds were so extremely slow in it, like 16kb/s, and there were all these strange workarounds you had to do and a script i had to write and run in windows to get it to work
>>108584817It's hosted by AWS. You know, there's probably a way to download more RAM on the same server without having to fire up a new one and move everything over (which would be a pain in the ass).
>>108584864It's a VM. You can scale it up and down and left and right.
>>108584873You can even set it to scale up and down dynamically.
