Network drives are a legitimate painpoint, luckily kde just got over a mil to work on network drives in particular, this will be a solved problem soon.

https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/13/KDE_Receives_Over_1M_from_Sovereign_Tech_Fund_for_Software_Deve.shtml

i will say using a network drive makes you not an average user though.