What file managers do you like?

[Vimmer]

I'm just curious, because linux distros are basically the only way you can choose between several working ones. Caja overall is nice, but a specific issue with it has cause me to mess around with 4pane and switch to dolphin as my default.

4pane makes it easy to move files around even though it's a little weird to get used to. Unfortunately, graphical file managers in my experience are pretty prone to bugs. I don't remember exactly which one it was, but one linux file manager would copy the files automatically when i select and move them, which is really frustrating (maybe an intended feature that wasn't very thoughtfully considered?)

 

[MikeRocor]

My current favorite is emelfm. Sadly, It's no longer supported/under development and it's getting to where some bits don't work any more so I'm on the hunt for something else.

 

[909mjolnir]

I used to prefer PCmanFM or PCmanFM-qt, but lately regular old Thunar is what I prefer.
However, I always keep a copy of Caja handy too. I like how in Caja you can view the contents of folders while still viewing the folder heirarchy. It makes complex reorganization easier. However, I like the custom commands capability of Thunar, so that's what I use most often.

 

[rafales1959]

I prefer thunar as my main file manager, i also keep a second handy mine is xfe.

 

[kc1di]

I basically use dolphin most of the time because , I like kde and it's there. But also on occasion use Midnight commander (MC)
Command line and a great file manager.

 

[Brickwizard]

I don't care as long as it works, on this machine its Nemo.

 

[KGIII]

I'm largely indifferent. I don't really need much advanced functionality out of a file manager.

 

[Mike-BTU]

Dolphin. It came with KDE Plasma on Manjaro and Debian 12. It's perfect, IMO.

 

[Phydoux]

For me, it's been pcmanfm for a few years but lately, I've gotten into Thunar.

For command line file management, I highly recommend mc (Midnight Commander). It's a clone of Norton commander (NC) which I used religiously in my Windows days. More often than Windows File Manager for sure.

 

[MikeWalsh]

It's not a case of "like". Not with me. I'm so used to using ROX by now, I simply can't see me ever using owt else.....and from what I've seen of most others, they're nowt to write home about, either.

It's weird; I never used drag'n'drop all the years I ran Windows. Now I'm in Linux, I don't do anything else!

If an FM 'works', that's all I ask of it. I don't do anything "critical" that demands a smooth, easy, predictable work-flow. I never used a computer at all, in all the years I was at work. For me, they've only EVER been a hobby.....played with in MY time (of which I have plenty).

Anyhoo; ROX is summat of an 'acquired taste'....!! It's like our Brit 'Marmite', or the Aussie 'Vegemite'; you either LOVE it.....or ya HATE it. And I think y'all know by now which camp I belong in....


Mike.

 

[Mike-BTU]

It's not a case of "like". Not with me. I'm so used to using ROX by now, I simply can't see me ever using owt else.....and from what I've seen of most others, they're nowt to write home about, either.

It's weird; I never used drag'n'drop all the years I ran Windows. Now I'm in Linux, I don't do anything else!

I had to look ROX up.

 

[MikeWalsh]

I had to look ROX up.

@Mike-BTU :-

Lol!!

She's not everybody's 'cup o' tea'.....but ROX is great fun to use. Suits my personality to a tee, since I've always been one for the more "quaint", unusual, "different" aspects of life. Being a boring, "mainstream" sheep ain't for me. Frankly, it sucks..!

You have to remember, y'see; Puppy's 'desktop' is NOT a full-fledged "DE". It's been created by using a window-manager, and the use of ROX-filer's 'pinboard' extension over the top of its ability to provide a background wallpaper behind said pinboard.

So; ROX lets you add a wallpaper. It then 'extends' the file-system - placed within a re-sizable grid - across the top of that wallpaper by the use of the afore-mentioned pinboard. This is what lets us place 'launchers' on top of the wallpapers.....because all you're doing is to move files around within the filesystem as you would normally. They're just appearing in a specialized area of the file-system.....and this area is able to give the same effect as a standard DE.

It's what allowed the early Puppies to offer the full 'desktop' paradigm in an ISO of under 100 MB.....populated with featherweight, often little heard-of apps. And that let Puppy offer a fully-functional OS in a very small package.

She takes some getting used-to, but it's all wonderfully - and often surprisingly! - versatile.....once ya get the hang of it.


Mike. .

 

[dos2unix]

Since 99% of the servers I deal with, don't have a GUI on them... I would say my file manager
is "mv", "ls", and "cp".

 

[MikeRocor]

It's weird; I never used drag'n'drop all the years I ran Windows. Now I'm in Linux, I don't do anything else!

After all the cleaning up after my dogs, I'm gonna try to avoid dragon droppings.

I'm just the opposite. For me, I guess because I don't use a highly integrated DE (I use JWM with whatever tools I've selected at any given time), I've found that "drag'n'drop" doesn't always work so I usually just don't bother with it. In Windows, I used to use it all the time.

 

[Vimmer]

I had to stop with caja (even though it's great otherwise), because if you right click a file for vim, it sometimes erases the original file name and replaces it with a backup endin in ~, and you can't even see the file in the gui afterwards.