Isn’t Windows File Explorer considered basic? It only just got tabs in 11 right? That and clicking on a disconnected network share would cause it to hang for a good few minutes.
For sure. Linux has a lot of great apps but there are times where it’ll become incredibly frustrating. For example, file explorers can be basic & frustrating… The best you’ll prob get is Dolphin.
SnortsGarlicPowder@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
timewarp@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It isn’t perfect by any means, but compared to Nautilus & many others, it still has a lot of benefits that make things quicker overall.
Sneptaur@pawb.social 5 days ago
I still contend that the best file browser ever made is the macOS Finder. When someone makes something that good for Linux, I’ll be very happy
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 days ago
What. What?? Finder is the fucking worst. It doesn’t have a sensible tree view, does it?
lightsblinken@lemmy.world 5 days ago
seems sensible to me? its not amazing but i dont mind it … what doesnt work for you?
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 days ago
Sidebar defaults are bad. There’s no home directory. How do you get to your home directory? Cmd+shift+H, but can you get there without that special shortcut? You can’t see the file system’s structure in Finder. The GUI doesn’t have a way to go “up” in the directory structure. I don’t think you can do it in the GUI alone.
It won’t let you see stuff in like \tmp\ without a fight, too. I don’t know how to open stuff in places like that without
cd’ing to the location in the terminal, and doingopen .in the desired directory.The list view is the least bad, but it gets unwieldy if your directories are deeply nested. It’s also bad if you started in the middle of the tree and want to go up. Gallery and column view are really bad for anything non trivial.
I often want to see the entire file path, and it really doesn’t want to cooperate. If I do find the file I’m looking for, and want the full path, it doesn’t want to give it. I don’t even know if there is a way to get it. Other than like cmd+clicking -> “new iterm2 tab here” ->
pwd, which is not really that helpful of Finder.Contrast with windows’ default explorer. It’s not perfect and I think windows11 made it worse, but still. Open it up, there’s the “my pc”, click through to my user directory, music, some album, then i can click the top thing and get the path. I can also see the whole tree on the left.
Whatever I was using in Mint was similar to windows’ Explorer. Had no complaints about it.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 5 days ago
I used treesize once to clean up my computer. That’s what a file system should be like.
noxypaws@pawb.social 5 days ago
Genuine question, is this trolling or do you seriously believe this?
Sneptaur@pawb.social 22 hours ago
Is it that outlandish that someone can appreciate a piece of closed-source software?
noxypaws@pawb.social 18 hours ago
Appreciate isn’t the claim tho
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 4 days ago
I’ve only used Nemo in Linux, but I can’t think of anything Windows file explorer can do that it can’t.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Linux has the best file manager I’ve found on any platform: Krusader. It has twin panels, and a lot of the functionality is bound to FKeys: F2 Rename, F3 View, F4 Edit, F5 Copy, etc. F9 will open a terminal in the current directory. You can edit text files from within Krusader. I’ve even done it on a remote filesystem over SSH.
helios@social.ggbox.fr 5 days ago
I tried this, it’s nice indeed. The layout will require some getting used to for me, but I like how it lets me add my remote server as sftp bookmark and open files from there pretty seamlessly, even videos.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one [bot] 5 days ago
I’m have to give this a look!