I’m on gnome using the default file explorer (nautilus) and it’s fine, but I wish there were more ways to display files, I like MacOS style. What’s your favorite?
Display bugs: whenever something changes in the underlying file system, the changes are not always reflected.
Backend bugs: deleting files causes CPU usage to soar up for whatever reason. Long standing bug, might be related to GVFS, but still not really sure.
I also got a few crashes but can’t remember exactly.
Compared to KDE Dolphin it also lacks some much needed features, such as the dialog window when copying files with filename conflict which could display more information (and a thumbnail).
I contributed some patches in the past, and the maintainer is a really cool person. Just need to find time to contribute more…
Thanks for your contributions in the past and for considering contributing in the future. It’S perfectly understandanble that you (like everybody) have limited time.
I’m not sure about the bugs you mentioned. I haven’t had a Thunar bug for a while. But I remember vaguely now that some large file operations aborted silently before being completed. When I delete several hundreds of files on an USB stick it takes forever but I thought this is due to the filesystem (freeing up every single cluster) and not specific to Thunar, but I may be wrong on this.
I just rock Dolphin and it is really good. Has lots of features and the UI is great imo. As for TUI stuff, I have lf and nnn, I haven’t picked a definite daily driver. I don’t use file explorer much anyways, so I don’t have an awful lot to say.
My favourite one is Dolphin but I don’t think it can be called “the best”. Nemo would be my first option but since I’m using KDE Plasma, Dolphin is my choice for UI consistency.
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pcmanfm-qt for graphical, nnn for terminal
@3xQfQhvj File explorer is one of those categories of app I really don’t care about. Nemo and PCManFM might be the nicest I’ve used though.
Nemo.
Thunar, but it’s really buggy. I keep telling myself I should find some free time to contribute some patches.
What bugs? (I didn’t encounter any. I use Thunar version 1.8.14)
Display bugs: whenever something changes in the underlying file system, the changes are not always reflected. Backend bugs: deleting files causes CPU usage to soar up for whatever reason. Long standing bug, might be related to GVFS, but still not really sure. I also got a few crashes but can’t remember exactly.
Compared to KDE Dolphin it also lacks some much needed features, such as the dialog window when copying files with filename conflict which could display more information (and a thumbnail).
I contributed some patches in the past, and the maintainer is a really cool person. Just need to find time to contribute more…
Thanks for your contributions in the past and for considering contributing in the future. It’S perfectly understandanble that you (like everybody) have limited time.
I’m not sure about the bugs you mentioned. I haven’t had a Thunar bug for a while. But I remember vaguely now that some large file operations aborted silently before being completed. When I delete several hundreds of files on an USB stick it takes forever but I thought this is due to the filesystem (freeing up every single cluster) and not specific to Thunar, but I may be wrong on this.
The terminal.
I just rock Dolphin and it is really good. Has lots of features and the UI is great imo. As for TUI stuff, I have lf and nnn, I haven’t picked a definite daily driver. I don’t use file explorer much anyways, so I don’t have an awful lot to say.
I like all the features and UI of Dolphin, though I’ve never gotten file indexing and search to work well in KDE.
https://github.com/gokcehan/lf/
My favourite one is Dolphin but I don’t think it can be called “the best”. Nemo would be my first option but since I’m using KDE Plasma, Dolphin is my choice for UI consistency.
For a cli one, I highly recommend broot. Its written in rust, and is a really unique way to explore files in this hybrid search way.
I usually just use a terminal ls-ing and cd-ing around, but when I use a file explorer, I use thunar which gets the job done.
Nemo File Manager. Hands down the best. Full of all the essential features and no fluff.
Forked back from the original Nautilus when it was usable, I couldn’t use whatever Gnome nautilus calls itself now.
Forks can be very healthy for a project, looking at you Audacity.
nnn is a CLI file manager closely resembling the “MacOS style”. Ranger would be another one.
Pantheon files, the GTK-based FM from the Pantheon desktop developed for elementaryOS, is probably the closest you can get to a Finder clone on Linux.
The name for the file management style from Finder you’re looking for is miller columns.
+1 nnn is the best
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That’s awesomeee!!! I wouldn’t use it though
That… Seems absolutely awful.
I like caja (Mate DE).