On Linux/macOS you can use `du` from the command line (or ask an AI to make a convenience wrapper for you).
On Linux/macOS you can use `du` from the command line (or ask an AI to make a convenience wrapper for you).
Thats a pretty bold claim, but is it really that much faster?
I think you might he using an old version, or have an issue with your storage.
It took almost 5 minutes and reports almost 2M items, 1.45M files and 465k subdirs...
I don't know that there's anything wrong with my disk, windirstat has always been slow when I ran it on my windows installation. Since it doesn't cheat, it goes slow. I will say, while it was reading, task manager showed a high read rate and a high write rate, and I dunno why, it's Windows (10); not that going through a convoluted filesystem is particularly fast anywhere else.