I’m dumbfounded. I’d be furious if it took more than 20 seconds

SMB is the linux version of Windows File Sharing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software) It is rather easy to use. Check out the manual, it is long but actually good. On linux, use smbclient to mount a remote share. It’s also quite easy to set up servers that can be accessed from both Windows and Linux, with lots of options on how to handle/simplify permissions.

CIFS is something similar that seems to be faster, but I’ve only used it as a client. On Windows, WinSCP works great with it. On linux you can use mount CIFS remote directories locally like this: mount -t cifs //HOSTNAME/REMOTEPATH LOCALPATH -o username=USERNAME,domain=DOMAIN.

Ask google or a good LLM for the details on this stuff :)

I use sshfs and smb and cifs

I think that’s what the gp comment tried to say but phrased it wrongly. Maybe.

Sorry, could you summarize how?

It is called windows 2000 explorer and it’s great for file operations :) In Linux i have yet to find a really good replacement ;(

Microsoft is doing this today. I can’t link it because I’m on mobile. It is in dotnet. It is not going well :)