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I think you can close this one. Thanks again.

Last time I was testing it I was copying from disk to memory. Now I've tried between 2 partitions of the same disk like you did and it was just a few seconds slower than before. Note that it is a regular disk, not even an SSD. Could it be some kind of interference with an Xfce process?

Maybe it's MX Linux-specific, because I can't reproduce it here on FreeBSD. I've tried multiple big files of 1GB, 2GB, 2.xGB each. Every GB takes consistently 20s more or less and Xfe 2.1.5 is using an average of 5% of CPU. That's on a rather old Core i3 machine with a SATA 2.x disk.

It works like a charm. Thank you.

At point 3.1, a dialog is open and you have to click (not double click) to select the file you want to symlink. Then click on Accept and you'll get your symlink. Yes, like point 3.3. But is there a reason for disabling double-clicking in this particular file selection dialog box? Double-clicking works fine for selecting files in: Filter > Select Destination Add Bookmark > Select Icon etc.

At point 3.1, a dialog is open and you have to click (not double click) to select the file you want to symlink. Then click on Accept and you'll get your symlink. Yes, like point 3.3. But is there a reason for disabling double-clicking in this particular file selection dialog box? Double-clicking works fine for selecting files in Filter > Select Destination Add Bookmark > Select Icon etc.

FreeBSD 14.3, official package (https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/x11-fm/xfe/Makefile).

I don't understand. Isn't this supposed to do the same thing ln(1) does on the command-line, or am I expecting something that isn't there? Right-click > New File > "text.txt" > Accept Right-click > New Symlink > "link" > Accept 3.1. Double-click on "text.txt" -> nothing 3.2. Press "Enter" -> nothing 3.3. Click "Ok" -> a symbolic link called "link" is successfully created