>>110183
you sound like an automaton repeating something you barely understand
performance and lifespan aren't unduly impacted until you've basically filled up the drive to the brim
and even at that point, performance isn't affected that much (lifespan is though! with less than 10% space, the disk you use for swap has issues with wear leveling since it is constantly being written to -- in that case though,you could probably move swap to a $30 SSD and massively cut down on writes and pretty much never have the issue again; the swap file will be the number one reason your boot drive fails)

if you think I'm having issues like the OP, I am not
they're on Linux, and pretty much none of the major Linux file managers are as fast as Explorer is when dealing with a large number of files since the majority of them try to prepare the full list of files at once, while Explorer will immediately start showing results before it knows how many files are present

either way,