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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

The most clearest description of file explorer: Dolphin (?)

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 18 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

Like if Nautilus is any better

Or, like, Total Commander. A wild guess would be some strategy game.

[–] dihutenosa@piefed.social 7 points 3 weeks ago

Once a couple employers ago, I got an email from IT admins demanding that I uninstall that "game".

[–] Haaveilija@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

The nautical theme also continues with Nemo

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Dolphin, the total commander of nautilus!

[–] T156@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Meanwhile, Midnight Commander reads like the title to a pornogram.

[–] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wasn’t it named after Norton Commander?

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 3 weeks ago

I mean, yeah, but then the same applies to Norton Commander as well :D

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

PCManFM (rare LXDE W)

[–] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.

(PRO TIP: dolphin is the KDE file manager, dolphin-emu is what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, a hybrid of dolphin and an emu. What a wonderful idea.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies

Jack is potentially the most sensibly named.

Is pipewire pipe or wire? Only the gods are allowed to know that.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Just remove the execute bit and then it can’t run. (Or overwrite the first 4 bytes with nulls if you want to permanently disable it)

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Or nautilus. My assumption is the files are in your sea not in their cloud.

[–] zeb420@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Lumberjack or woodpecker honestly would have been better names since file systems are basically trees

[–] T156@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If the file system is a tree, naming the file manager for someone whose job it is to destroy the tree seems silly.

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Is that where ranger got it's name?

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

It kind of makes sense. You are swimming the sea of misorganized random piles of files and folders you have created.

[–] kreiger@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

WDYM "explorer", is that some weird name for a file manager?

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

You can explore file system, but how would you dolphin it?

[–] BurnoutDV@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I always loved the logically escalation with konquerer