My number 1 complaint after switching from linux mint back to windows after years in linux-land after building a gaming rig -
The auto sort by date and group by most recent in their file explorer that you have to either use a third party app to turn back into sort by name and group by none, or - do that selection for literally every folder on its own.
That's a fucking train wreck. Who decided that sorting by date instead of name was a good idea? WHY?
> Who decided that sorting by date instead of name was a good idea?
It depends on the context. Sometimes when I'm looking at photos, I really do prefer sorting by date. Similarly, when I'm looking at the Downloads folder, I'm probably most interested in the thing I just downloaded, so having that near the top makes a lot of sense and would gladly prefer that than having it sorted alphabetically.
However, if I'm just looking at a directory of documents, alphabetical wins for sure. If I'm looking at a music collection, I'd probably want to sort by artist name alphabetically, but not necessarily filename.
I can kind of understand making it the default sort, but not getting rid of the others. Most users don’t know they can sort the list of things in a folder. They just want to see the thing they just created, or the thing they were last working on. So sort by either creation date, modification date, or date added is what will be most helpful to most of them and result in the least open tickets for Microsoft. But to remove the other options, that’s just bad.
Maybe I misunderstand, it's definitely possible to sort by name and select to apply it to all folders? That feature has been there for several decades...
The auto sort by date and group by most recent in their file explorer that you have to either use a third party app to turn back into sort by name and group by none, or - do that selection for literally every folder on its own.
That's a fucking train wreck. Who decided that sorting by date instead of name was a good idea? WHY?