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?
I like Dolphin. It’s the most full-featured of the “classic” file managers that I’m aware of, and it doesn’t feel overloaded to me either.
I love Thunar. I can open a terminal right in the current directory. Unfortunately you often have to install the icon set manually when you install it without Gnome.
I don’t know what Mac style means.
I love Thunar. I can open a terminal right in the current directory.
Dolphin can do this, too, fyi. Not saying Thunar is bad, but that wouldn’t be Thunar’s killing feature for me. I like the multi-window behavior of Thunar and how it comes with sane defaults and does everything the Unix way: exactly a file manager, nothing more.
Dolphin does a bit more, but is still a very good FM. I use it because I have grown to like KDE Plasma.
Same, thunar is my fave graphical one.
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Interesting style. I think no Linux file manager can display in that style.
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I was thinking I didn’t like the direction nautilus was taking, thunar looks nice, I’ll give it a try
You can also try Caja, which is “the old Nautilus” from the MATE DE (continuation of Gnome 2, while modernising the codebase).
sounds good, I’ll check it out
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 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.
Ranger. But if you want GUI then Dolphin seemed good when I tried it
+1 ranger
I like all the features and UI of Dolphin, though I’ve never gotten file indexing and search to work well in KDE.
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.
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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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.
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.
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That… Seems absolutely awful.
That’s awesomeee!!! I wouldn’t use it though
Ranger because terminal. I like thuner too.
pcmanfm-qt for graphical, nnn for terminal
I’d love Nautilus if it weren’t for some stupid decisions (I believe it’s not a bug), I still use it but I enjoy Dolphin more.
LIKE, WHY THE HELL CANT I OPEN ANOTHER TERMINAL THAN GNOME TERMINAL FROM THE CONTEXT MENU?
