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i just can't stand gnome anymore, it was my favorite for a long time too. KDE is fine, I'm into Cosmic right now but I'm not sure I like the file manager
That's crazy Dolphin is the best file manager on Linux. Nemo is second and the rest is unusable trash lacking so many features.
Last time I used Nemo it was an unstable mess, but that was a while ago. I'm sure it's been improved.
Interesting, dolphin is by far my favorite file manager? What don't you like about it?
I'd have to use it again to tell you, to be honest. It's been couple months since I last did and so my memory is a little foggy except for my dislike. I remember not liking how tabs work and how it took a bunch of tinkering to make it less annoying.
on a machine that I ran for years, i basically did kde but with a different file manager, that was wonky and presented it's own problems but it wasn't Dolphin so I was satisfied
Might've been PCManFM-Qt, which is also used by LXQt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMan_File_Manager
At least, that's another Qt file manager I know of.
Well, or it was Krusader: https://krusader.org/
But Krusader is funky, i.e. similar to Total Commander and GNU Midnight Commander...
Krusader (or generally dual-pane file managers) is great once you get used to it. I have been using it (and Double Commander on Windows) for years now and wouldn't want to get back to anything else.
Yeah, I often hear that. A few years ago, I tried to get into Krusader, because I also liked some of the features it has, but after two weeks or so, I realized that I don't use the file manager nearly often enough to make progress in learning a different workflow. π
Well, and I also kind of had the problem that navigating into directories is quite fast on the terminal, especially with Fish shell, so I often do that there and then run
open .to launch the GUI file manager for the thumbnails or dragging into other GUI applications.And that Frankenstein workflow is kind of diametrically opposed to dual-pane file managers, where you really need to navigate to different locations in the respective pane from within the file manager. π«
There's also Konqueror, the file manager/web browser combo that was mostly replaced by dolphin but is still sort of maintained