For those of you wondering where PCMANFM is, it was originally slotted for #4 on this list. But it wouldn't launch on my computer for some reason, so I had to find a different one.
just putting this out there. i know i use the pamac-aur when i use arch but for good reasons. i don't have to go search the web to find the file versions of apps and stuff i want to install and if you use it and search for pcmanfm there are 2 versions i believe the version is 1.3.0 or 1.30 or 31 the version below that doesn't work. but ik i've used pcmanfm recently
My daily driver is Double Commander. Dual pane, tree, remembers position, has favorites, image previews, folder previews, mass renamer, compare tool, a lot of plugins, etc. It's a really good one and also being actively developed.
When I left Gnome, the file manager that, imo, came closest to a sleek modern design was Nemo. It had more features than Nautilus, but hid those features under the menu. Also, being highly customizable, you could take the minimal look even further. All others graphical file managers looked a bit old and bloated to me. Sadly, I deleted Nemo from my system last week, as I've transitioned into using a tui file manager, the best (and most functional) one being Ranger.
I personally prefer using the cp ls mv tree commands if I'm gonna use a terminal anyways, doesn't make much sense to use ranger for me personally other than the three pane view which can be helpful sometimes.
@@priyanshusharma1812 completely agree. I don't understand the want for terminal file managers at all because there are just commands built in lol. just bloat :P i don't have any file manager on my system, just stick to the normal shell commands, but if i were to get one i'd get a gui one because that's the only thing i can imagine wanting that the terminal can't offer
My favorite file managers are Dolphin (gui) and Vifm (terminal). I use a tiling window manager Qtile and have Dolphin fully themed (gruvbox) and all icons and everything works fine on my system. However, there was a few steps in order to reach this goal. Dolphin did not work well out of the box using Qtile.
i would've put pcmanfm instead of thunar, and for number one, pcmanfm's brother spacefm. my search for a linux gui filemanager ended when i found spacefm. have between 1 to 4 panes, and extensible with scripts. it hasn't been updated in ages, but it works great.
Same thing here.I use space fm since I wanted to separate myself from the ready-made desktop environment. The only thing to blame is his abandonment of development and that is perhaps why he was not presented here . Another series of videos that could be made is: Quality free software discontinued. Thanks for the video and thumbs up
Love spacefm. If an application still works as it suppose too. I'm for it, even no more development has stop to continue with the project. I still use the original opencubic player as it's still awesome and development stop on this project decades ago.
Very surprised by the absence of spaceFM -a monument of a do it all file manager, in my back-woods learning opinion. I had thought Thunar was a token effort that comes with Xfce, I do like Xfce a lot. but I hadn't ever used the FM; I shall now give it a fresh open-minded tinkering. Thanks for that; I really like the stuff you do. Keep ranting good Sir! I look forward to the next thrilling instalment; I have been using "ranger". It fits in well with my desire to learn the 'way of Vim'; I think its spiritual :).
@@Sawa137 Hi joey m.., You had me stumped I did not have a picture in my head of how I navigate the pain :). So yesterday I worked with both Thunar and SpaceFM to have a look at what I do. I found that I in SpaceFM I use the mouse and click the upper ticks (English for US' checks') I generally have 3 or 4 sections running. I have been using Space FM on desk PC and Laptop under at least 3 distros; maybe 4 (I run Q4OS on an old ACER 386 now only for Grand-offspring homework). I found it interesting that I had never noticed the zero feed-back of pain. I use Terminator as a terminal coz it so clearly 'shouts' THIS PAIN IS IN USE for you. Thank you for enabling a days procrastination; I do love to procrastinate. Tony
@@tonymckeown5393 haha thanks anyway. I'm gonna use krusader, sux tho that it has a ton of dependencies and the font rendering is pretty bad in Qt apps.
I think honourable mention should go to "Sunflower" and "DC Commander". "Nemo" has been my typical go-to file manager although I can't get the coolest features using the latest Ubuntu based distro. Apparently, the author hasn't updated some of those plug-ins for newer from Focal Fossa and beyond. Pity. On the subject of file managers though, can anyone please explain to me why all file managers are incapable of copying all the files requested in one shot and then leave the "do you want to overwrite the existing file?" questions until the end? This is my biggest pet peeve with ALL file managers. It's especially a pain in the *ss when I want to dump hundreds of files over to an external drive. I walk away assuming the job will get done in an hour or so, just to realize the copying stopped two minutes after I walked away from my computer. Uggghh.... it pisses me off to no end!!! Can't this issue be easily solved?
Dolphin does everything Nemo does, and has even more features: you can use Dolphin even without the keyboard, select files inside and outside a folder at the same time, move or copy them. The Dolphin shown in the video seems to be incomplete. Not to mention that you can use the search and filter systems at the same time.
I've been using linux in one distro or another for ~20yrs and my favorite DEs are mate and plasma. Now to me I find it curious why anyone would choose what you have chosen over Caja. Caja is quite easy to use, powerful, and versatile. It's obviously my favorite file manager/ It is the default file manager for the Mate DE and also works well with Plasma
I know that you talk about dependencies for Krusader to be a detriment in some people's eyes but for others it's actually very nice. Because of the dependency modularization that means you can actually just not install the packages that enable the features you don't want. Of course this means you really need to know what you're doing if you want to not install certain dependencies but for an easy example the file preview is pretty easy to just not have if you want to have a lighter system on older hardware and really don't want that so it doesn't slow things down.
Thanks for sharing this. Beside the customization... can you tell us how they rate in terms of their "search" function. I know Nemo can search by file type, and file contents. What about the others. Also, are there any file managers that can combine a search including a date - for example all TXT files modified this week?
So glad I stumbled upon this video, I recently moved to Linux and was in dire need of something like Krusader on windows I couldn't live without Total Commander.
Dolphin is just missing the breeze icon set hence not icons are showing. Once you have the breeze icon set then it will show any icon set you have as long as you set it up as your icon theme.
When I had installed dwm, I had the same problem with dolphin. The solution that I found is installed qt5ct and qt5-style-plugins, then you need to configure qt styles with the qt5ct app. I expect that helps you.
@@agostinobarbetti3819 almost all of the terminal file managers are good.To encourage myself to use sfm instead of the command line, I configured a hot-key combination to launch it.
Interesting. I havent ever had a launch issue with PCmanFM. It works pretty well with WM's (I have found). Anyway, It's your channel, its you review, and these are your preferences. I like them and I think they are just about right. I personally like Krusader and would take it into any battle. I like PcmanFm for Qtile or any other WM. But all these are good choices. I probably would have chose all of these if I were keeping the community in mind. I would also like to say that I like Josh's, Zaney's, and your channels a lot . Y'all keep me laughing and learning a bit. Just be the way you are and do what you like to do and have fun at it!!!!
Easy Dolphin for me. I need that option to remember last session tabs. While Nautilus or Nemo might be simpler for normal users, for office worker like me? Dolphin is literally perfect.
well, I agree with the #1 pick - well, because it's what Inuse -:) but am intrigued to learn about text mode UI file managers as over the years I find myself gravitating to that due I have to deal with ssh tty sessions day in and day out so I've just become acclimated to command line and full screen text mode UI programs
ive tried using it with root privileges and apparently the reason you cant is because of a (supposedly unfixable) security hole. however it (usually) asks you in a dialog for root privileges if youre trying to do something that requires it
Would be nice to have some performance tests instead of just the most superficial optics. How do they handle large directories, how is the performance of a 10000 files copy. What happens when i open a misformed file with a 100k long line (this crashs so many apps that just use the default text widget to display it). How is searching supported, iteratively redefined searches(?), does it support file tagging and meta data, does it show and can search for file metadata (not size but real XMP metadata. A lot to talk about but you aren't doing anything.
Krusader is great, but Qt apps have really bad font rendering in fedora. No hinting and too bold. Does anyone has a solution? It looks much better in ubuntu but still not perfect.
i dont really understand dual pane file managers, i like dolphin because i have the option to have a second pane when i need it but not have it wasting screen space when i dont need it
I'm curently a Files user but have used Dolphin in the past, which I prefer. I'll check out Krusader though, when I install Neon on one of my other machines! 🙂
I liked Dolphin because of the double file windows, but had to get rid of it because could not find a way to make it dark. Blinding white makes it unusable for me.
2:08 Dolphin does that... I hate that. I much prefer it open the home directory or root when I open it than remember where I last was including external drives and all that. Personal, I like it opening to 1 specific folder, when I restart, or even when I close the file manager.
qt5ct is wonderful in theming a QT app like krusader. I have one big problem however. I use Arc as icon theme. That gives me the most icons but some are missing. In your video you have every icon! Can you give me a tip on what theme to install to get all icons in krusader? (Arch linux)
Can we get a in-depth separate video on each so that we can get familiar with most of its functions and it will be easy for us to migrate between FMs...
Another exaxmple of why Thunar destroys the file managers mentioned in this video. Simply add a new custom action with command "pkexec thunar %f" and there is your run thunar as admin context menu item. You can even assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
I want to switch to linux. Which file manager is similar to windows explorar? I install windows in C drive and keep my files in D and E drive. Can I do that in linux?
I'm not talking about a thumbnail on the icon (which generally indicates its filetype), but a full on preview pane where I can click on a file and have a much larger representation readily available to view. I cannot see that functionality in Krusader at all. Maybe I am blind!
@@cyberlizardcouk krusader has it. You have to have the kio-extras package installed. Then click the arrow on the right side of the colored bar that goes along the bottom. Then a file tree shows up. There are three or four buttons on the top of the file tree pane. The second one is the preview pane.
Turns out I might not have said that in the video. I did in one part, but it might have got cut. Anyways, it was supposed to be #4, but it wouldn't load.
And not one of them can group and sort at the same time. You would think that all the linux nerds claiming to be oh-so-smart would have created one that could by now, the feature was out since Vista... What's worse, they pretend to be dumb and not understand what grouping means on forums or just derail the thread interpreting groups as group of users or acting as if it was a feature in terminal. The best is the typical programmer response: "why would you need to do that?" I don't think windows users hate linux for what linux is, more like for what kind of people use linux. Before anyone replies, please read carefully: group AND sort.
Almost file manager suck, compare to Windows file manager. You can't freaking group by type and sort by date. I think Dolphin manager got this option somewhere hidden. Windows manager is the best GUI manager to use freaking behemot but its slow compare to linux.
For someone who starts off the video saying "I have a thing for file managers" this video is unbelievably shallow. No depth to it at all. Barely more than "I like the design more".
Thunar is the only good one imo. I use it on every desktop env and distro and remove the default one. Thunar is really fast and the custom actions + batch rename it offers is perfect for me. If you know how to code or how to copy scripts from github you can make it do and behave any you want. Yet it's not primitive like midnight commander. It has thumbnails and everything. Nemo, Nautilus and Dolphin are all bad from my perspective. All of them are slow in comparison and I can care less about any of the bloated features they offer.
I am far more interested in terminal file managers than gui ones. Ever since I switched to lf, I don't see myself using gui file manager. Also with it, I do not see point of dual pane file manager as I can just open two instances and copy/paste between them.
nautilus (as of 42.2) should be #1 starting from the bottom. probably the worst file manager ever, does very few things and most of them wrong. the grid display is ridiculously slow, buggy and space inefficient (what does 133% even mean?). have a folder with thousand files? go grab a coffee because it wont display shit until full directory listing is complete (and will stat fs again if you ever re-sort/change view). want to quickly jump into a file within a folder? nope, it will trigger a slow, recursive search that god knows how the matching works (instead of using fnmatch) and wont allow you to re-sort search results. coping files? the background copy icon is probably the worst UX I ever experienced, I rebooted several times mid-copy because I forgot I was copying files (and when it finishes the icon does not clear up, it gets stuck at 100%). the recent view only displays files and most of the time all I need is directories (also the sidebar shortcuts are a joke). the starred view doesn't even work, it's always empty regardless how many things you star.
For those of you wondering where PCMANFM is, it was originally slotted for #4 on this list. But it wouldn't launch on my computer for some reason, so I had to find a different one.
PcmanFm is discontinued as I understood it. PcmanFm-Qt is the LXQt-fork and I like it a lot.
just putting this out there. i know i use the pamac-aur when i use arch but for good reasons. i don't have to go search the web to find the file versions of apps and stuff i want to install and if you use it and search for pcmanfm there are 2 versions i believe the version is 1.3.0 or 1.30 or 31 the version below that doesn't work. but ik i've used pcmanfm recently
My daily driver is Double Commander. Dual pane, tree, remembers position, has favorites, image previews, folder previews, mass renamer, compare tool, a lot of plugins, etc. It's a really good one and also being actively developed.
It's also a available for those unfortunate, who are stuck on Windows (e.g. for work). Really good application.
I am looking for a decent file manager for GNOME. I might consider Double Commander for GNOME. I don't like Nautilus much honestly, feels awkward.
Caja should definitely get a mention in the top 5 imo.
Nemo is excellent though.
Love your videos. I am new to the community and you are helping me learn so much!
When I left Gnome, the file manager that, imo, came closest to a sleek modern design was Nemo. It had more features than Nautilus, but hid those features under the menu. Also, being highly customizable, you could take the minimal look even further. All others graphical file managers looked a bit old and bloated to me. Sadly, I deleted Nemo from my system last week, as I've transitioned into using a tui file manager, the best (and most functional) one being Ranger.
I agree Nemo is freaken awesome!!
I personally prefer using the cp ls mv tree commands if I'm gonna use a terminal anyways, doesn't make much sense to use ranger for me personally other than the three pane view which can be helpful sometimes.
@@priyanshusharma1812 completely agree. I don't understand the want for terminal file managers at all because there are just commands built in lol. just bloat :P
i don't have any file manager on my system, just stick to the normal shell commands, but if i were to get one i'd get a gui one because that's the only thing i can imagine wanting that the terminal can't offer
My favorite file managers are Dolphin (gui) and Vifm (terminal).
I use a tiling window manager Qtile and have Dolphin fully themed (gruvbox) and all icons and everything works fine on my system. However, there was a few steps in order to reach this goal. Dolphin did not work well out of the box using Qtile.
Eyyy
We have quite the similar setup
I too use dolphin on qtile
i would've put pcmanfm instead of thunar, and for number one, pcmanfm's brother spacefm.
my search for a linux gui filemanager ended when i found spacefm. have between 1 to 4 panes, and extensible with scripts. it hasn't been updated in ages, but it works great.
Couldn't get pcmanfm to load on my computer, as I said in the video, IDK why
Same thing here.I use space fm since I wanted to separate myself from the ready-made desktop environment.
The only thing to blame is his abandonment of development and that is perhaps why he was not presented here . Another series of videos that could be made is: Quality free software discontinued.
Thanks for the video and thumbs up
Love spacefm. If an application still works as it suppose too. I'm for it, even no more development has stop to continue with the project. I still use the original opencubic player as it's still awesome and development stop on this project decades ago.
Both of these are also favs of mine, along with a new fork of spacefm called zzzfm
@@nicolasfazilleau9628 Excellent topic suggestion
Very surprised by the absence of spaceFM -a monument of a do it all file manager, in my back-woods learning opinion. I had thought Thunar was a token effort that comes with Xfce, I do like Xfce a lot. but I hadn't ever used the FM; I shall now give it a fresh open-minded tinkering. Thanks for that;
I really like the stuff you do. Keep ranting good Sir!
I look forward to the next thrilling instalment; I have been using "ranger". It fits in well with my desire to learn the 'way of Vim'; I think its spiritual :).
In spacefm I can't see clearly which pane is active. Do you have a solution?
Spacefm is also a fav of mine along with it's new fork zzzfm
@@Sawa137 Hi joey m.., You had me stumped I did not have a picture in my head of how I navigate the pain :). So yesterday I worked with both Thunar and SpaceFM to have a look at what I do. I found that I in SpaceFM I use the mouse and click the upper ticks (English for US' checks') I generally have 3 or 4 sections running. I have been using Space FM on desk PC and Laptop under at least 3 distros; maybe 4 (I run Q4OS on an old ACER 386 now only for Grand-offspring homework). I found it interesting that I had never noticed the zero feed-back of pain. I use Terminator as a terminal coz it so clearly 'shouts' THIS PAIN IS IN USE for you. Thank you for enabling a days procrastination; I do love to procrastinate. Tony
@@tonymckeown5393 haha thanks anyway. I'm gonna use krusader, sux tho that it has a ton of dependencies and the font rendering is pretty bad in Qt apps.
I think honourable mention should go to "Sunflower" and "DC Commander". "Nemo" has been my typical go-to file manager although I can't get the coolest features using the latest Ubuntu based distro. Apparently, the author hasn't updated some of those plug-ins for newer from Focal Fossa and beyond. Pity.
On the subject of file managers though, can anyone please explain to me why all file managers are incapable of copying all the files requested in one shot and then leave the "do you want to overwrite the existing file?" questions until the end? This is my biggest pet peeve with ALL file managers. It's especially a pain in the *ss when I want to dump hundreds of files over to an external drive. I walk away assuming the job will get done in an hour or so, just to realize the copying stopped two minutes after I walked away from my computer. Uggghh.... it pisses me off to no end!!! Can't this issue be easily solved?
Dolphin does everything Nemo does, and has even more features: you can use Dolphin even without the keyboard, select files inside and outside a folder at the same time, move or copy them. The Dolphin shown in the video seems to be incomplete. Not to mention that you can use the search and filter systems at the same time.
just FYI, nemo has an option to "always start in duel-pane view" in the preference
I'm aware. But it doesn't remember your open tabs. If it did, it'd be even more awesome.
@@TheLinuxCast ahh ok, good point, being an open source project it would be a good request feature on their github page
Thank you! I have a bunch of old drives I'm trying to sort out and your video really helped me figure out where to go next with the project.
I've been using linux in one distro or another for ~20yrs and my favorite DEs are mate and plasma. Now to me I find it curious why anyone would choose what you have chosen over Caja. Caja is quite easy to use, powerful, and versatile. It's obviously my favorite file manager/ It is the default file manager for the Mate DE and also works well with Plasma
I know that you talk about dependencies for Krusader to be a detriment in some people's eyes but for others it's actually very nice. Because of the dependency modularization that means you can actually just not install the packages that enable the features you don't want.
Of course this means you really need to know what you're doing if you want to not install certain dependencies but for an easy example the file preview is pretty easy to just not have if you want to have a lighter system on older hardware and really don't want that so it doesn't slow things down.
missing IndexFM then you would have all 3 of the KDE file managers :) Index is amazing when you get use to it
when configed, dolphin can look absolutely stunning
Thanks for sharing this. Beside the customization... can you tell us how they rate in terms of their "search" function. I know Nemo can search by file type, and file contents. What about the others. Also, are there any file managers that can combine a search including a date - for example all TXT files modified this week?
Double Commander can do all that -- it has a lot of search options.
So glad I stumbled upon this video, I recently moved to Linux and was in dire need of something like Krusader on windows I couldn't live without Total Commander.
Krusader remains the best.
Dolphin is just missing the breeze icon set hence not icons are showing. Once you have the breeze icon set then it will show any icon set you have as long as you set it up as your icon theme.
When I had installed dwm, I had the same problem with dolphin. The solution that I found is installed qt5ct and qt5-style-plugins, then you need to configure qt styles with the qt5ct app. I expect that helps you.
sfm pairs nicely with dwm if you don't need a GUI-based file manager.
@@0x007A About terminal file managers, I have installed nnn. I need to learn more about nnn. I will investigate sfm. Thank you for the advice.
@@agostinobarbetti3819 almost all of the terminal file managers are good.To encourage myself to use sfm instead of the command line, I configured a hot-key combination to launch it.
Interesting. I havent ever had a launch issue with PCmanFM. It works pretty well with WM's (I have found). Anyway, It's your channel, its you review, and these are your preferences. I like them and I think they are just about right. I personally like Krusader and would take it into any battle. I like PcmanFm for Qtile or any other WM. But all these are good choices. I probably would have chose all of these if I were keeping the community in mind. I would also like to say that I like Josh's, Zaney's, and your channels a lot . Y'all keep me laughing and learning a bit. Just be the way you are and do what you like to do and have fun at it!!!!
Easy Dolphin for me. I need that option to remember last session tabs. While Nautilus or Nemo might be simpler for normal users, for office worker like me? Dolphin is literally perfect.
As usual you find great topics other miss. Well done!
Pcmanfm will always be my default. They didn't overload anything, it's balanced well.
Eh. I prefer nemo over pcmanfm.
well, I agree with the #1 pick - well, because it's what Inuse -:)
but am intrigued to learn about text mode UI file managers as over the years I find myself gravitating to that due I have to deal with ssh tty sessions day in and day out so I've just become acclimated to command line and full screen text mode UI programs
When I started using Linux a few months ago, the thing I didn't like about Dolphin is that I can't seem to use it with elevated privileges.
I think they're fixing that, but I may be wrong. For the record, Krusader does have a root mode that can be enabled.
ive tried using it with root privileges and apparently the reason you cant is because of a (supposedly unfixable) security hole. however it (usually) asks you in a dialog for root privileges if youre trying to do something that requires it
i'm a recent linux covert using Pop os thank you on you expertise
Would be nice to have some performance tests instead of just the most superficial optics. How do they handle large directories, how is the performance of a 10000 files copy. What happens when i open a misformed file with a 100k long line (this crashs so many apps that just use the default text widget to display it). How is searching supported, iteratively redefined searches(?), does it support file tagging and meta data, does it show and can search for file metadata (not size but real XMP metadata.
A lot to talk about but you aren't doing anything.
Krusader is great, but Qt apps have really bad font rendering in fedora. No hinting and too bold. Does anyone has a solution? It looks much better in ubuntu but still not perfect.
Nemo: can it attach files from Gmail web ? Files nautilus can not. Search does not work from there and attachment does not work correctly.
i dont really understand dual pane file managers, i like dolphin because i have the option to have a second pane when i need it but not have it wasting screen space when i dont need it
Great video thanks very helpful.
Also, I'm just gonna throw that out - I'd watch an in-depth tutorial for Krusader with configuring it correctly, tips for usage etc :)
If I thought more than 10 people would watch that, I'd make it. I ❤️Krusader
I'm curently a Files user but have used Dolphin in the past, which I prefer. I'll check out Krusader though, when I install Neon on one of my other machines! 🙂
I liked Dolphin because of the double file windows, but had to get rid of it because could not find a way to make it dark. Blinding white makes it unusable for me.
Excellent! Thank you.
@The Linux Cast Did you try Norton Commander?
2:08 Dolphin does that... I hate that.
I much prefer it open the home directory or root when I open it than remember where I last was including external drives and all that.
Personal, I like it opening to 1 specific folder, when I restart, or even when I close the file manager.
I've tried almost all Linux file managers, but always go back to PCMANFM...
thank you
I now use krusader, thank you !
Is there a file manager that has a column view like Mac os and also it's clear like nautilus ?
Can you do a Krusader tutorial? That would be great
I use and Xubuntu fork and have Nemo set as the default FM / it works fine for me / thanks for the video.
if you have installed multiple FM how... i mean how do you choose what to use? or open files
I like thunar but have found it to be prone to freezing too so am now sticking with Nemo.
qt5ct is wonderful in theming a QT app like krusader. I have one big problem however. I use Arc as icon theme. That gives me the most icons but some are missing. In your video you have every icon! Can you give me a tip on what theme to install to get all icons in krusader? (Arch linux)
Caja. I'm a Mate user so that's what I'm used to.
I haven't seen this, but I'm guessing Krusader is #1
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LMAO
Good video
QtFM is not as great/mature as these ones, but it is an interesting alternative.
Can we get a in-depth separate video on each so that we can get familiar with most of its functions and it will be easy for us to migrate between FMs...
I love Dolphin. The only thing i don't like about it is that it doesn't let you acces it as administrator.
Another exaxmple of why Thunar destroys the file managers mentioned in this video. Simply add a new custom action with command "pkexec thunar %f" and there is your run thunar as admin context menu item. You can even assign a keyboard shortcut to it.
At least that's the command for Fedora. Idk if it's the same on debian-based and arch-based.
I want to switch to linux. Which file manager is similar to windows explorar? I install windows in C drive and keep my files in D and E drive. Can I do that in linux?
I stay with Dolphin installed Dolphin-root from the AUR if I need for some reason works fine for me.
Is there a way to filter (not sort) files by extension in Nemo?
If I remember right you need qt5ct to fix that ui glitch in dolphin
Nemo gang
Dired is the file manager for Chads. End. Of. Story.
before I get shouted down, I would like a file manager such as windows explorer with a dedicated preview pane - but that's just me.
Krusader has one. You just need to enable it for each tab.
I'm not talking about a thumbnail on the icon (which generally indicates its filetype), but a full on preview pane where I can click on a file and have a much larger representation readily available to view. I cannot see that functionality in Krusader at all. Maybe I am blind!
@@cyberlizardcouk krusader has it. You have to have the kio-extras package installed. Then click the arrow on the right side of the colored bar that goes along the bottom. Then a file tree shows up. There are three or four buttons on the top of the file tree pane. The second one is the preview pane.
will thunar for xfce works on KDE? can you mix them?
Sure. It'll work fine
Konqueror forever!!!
Can Nemo be opened as sudo?
use qt5ct to set dolphin's icon theme
I like thunar
No pcmanfm?
It was supposed to be #4, but I couldn't get it launch on my computer.
dude how dare u not add pcmanfm it gets the job done.
Couldn't get it to launch. As I said in. The. Video.
I was expecting Double Commander being on his list too
Turns out I might not have said that in the video. I did in one part, but it might have got cut. Anyways, it was supposed to be #4, but it wouldn't load.
@@TheLinuxCast lol months later seeing comments. theres 2 different versions of it. i've noticed in arch. the 1.3.2 version is the working version.
And not one of them can group and sort at the same time. You would think that all the linux nerds claiming to be oh-so-smart would have created one that could by now, the feature was out since Vista... What's worse, they pretend to be dumb and not understand what grouping means on forums or just derail the thread interpreting groups as group of users or acting as if it was a feature in terminal. The best is the typical programmer response: "why would you need to do that?" I don't think windows users hate linux for what linux is, more like for what kind of people use linux. Before anyone replies, please read carefully: group AND sort.
tried konqueror ?
Dolphin is king!
Krusader is the best.
nice on air sign. btw use emacs
Thunarrr
Almost file manager suck, compare to Windows file manager. You can't freaking group by type and sort by date. I think Dolphin manager got this option somewhere hidden. Windows manager is the best GUI manager to use freaking behemot but its slow compare to linux.
Ranger!!
have you tried peony?
For someone who starts off the video saying "I have a thing for file managers" this video is unbelievably shallow.
No depth to it at all. Barely more than "I like the design more".
@@mikelytou it’s a top five list bro. Not a review. Do you want to see a review of file manager? I have several of those.
Thunar is the only good one imo. I use it on every desktop env and distro and remove the default one. Thunar is really fast and the custom actions + batch rename it offers is perfect for me. If you know how to code or how to copy scripts from github you can make it do and behave any you want. Yet it's not primitive like midnight commander. It has thumbnails and everything. Nemo, Nautilus and Dolphin are all bad from my perspective. All of them are slow in comparison and I can care less about any of the bloated features they offer.
The only thing that's missing from Thunar is the ability to disable thumbnails ONLY in list view like in Nautilis and Windows Explorer.
I am far more interested in terminal file managers than gui ones. Ever since I switched to lf, I don't see myself using gui file manager. Also with it, I do not see point of dual pane file manager as I can just open two instances and copy/paste between them.
nautilus (as of 42.2) should be #1 starting from the bottom. probably the worst file manager ever, does very few things and most of them wrong. the grid display is ridiculously slow, buggy and space inefficient (what does 133% even mean?). have a folder with thousand files? go grab a coffee because it wont display shit until full directory listing is complete (and will stat fs again if you ever re-sort/change view). want to quickly jump into a file within a folder? nope, it will trigger a slow, recursive search that god knows how the matching works (instead of using fnmatch) and wont allow you to re-sort search results. coping files? the background copy icon is probably the worst UX I ever experienced, I rebooted several times mid-copy because I forgot I was copying files (and when it finishes the icon does not clear up, it gets stuck at 100%). the recent view only displays files and most of the time all I need is directories (also the sidebar shortcuts are a joke). the starred view doesn't even work, it's always empty regardless how many things you star.
Is this the Terminal File Manager you were talking about making? th-cam.com/video/5h5AZ96CFwI/w-d-xo.html
Vifm + Dragon is all you need.
Sorry, I downvote all clickbaits. Great channel though.
to get dolphin to work on my i3 setup I had to install qt5ct and put "export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct" in my ~/.profile