
I understand what you say but at least I should be able to for example switch to Google Chrome and continue browsing or reading the current page while the transfer is in progress, I know I can’t force the system to do different tasks at the same time but I’ve never had an issue like this under Windows. maybe this issue is already solved and I’m unaware of it or it’s coming from my lack of knowledge, etc.)! I am having this issue too and I just expressed my thought about this (i.e. Maybe there has to be some dynamic lock/limitation by default for disks I/O on huge file transferring subjects in upstream things (like gnome-nautilus) or downstream things (like kernel) so that all the things can run smoothly while the disk is performing the desired task! As far as I know, when you are transferring lots of small files or a huge single file, the active HDD/SDD’s I/O (input/output) goes very high, and that means the active disk (the one which is working to perform the copy/cut/paste task on files) is working very hard to perform the task as soon as possible, and when the disk is focused on that task there wouldn’t be much more disk strength (?) left for the other common things that has to be done in the disk to keep the desktop and distribution running smoothly!
