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For all the MacOS dual pane file-manager fans: I tried them all and only recently discovered Marta ( https://marta.sh/ ) which is now my favourite file manager!
Scrolling a pane is "slow", or simple jumpy. Not enjoyable at all. Plus... 37 euros????
I feel compelled to mention Directory Opus^0 whenever Total Commander comes up. 0: https://www.gpsoft.com.au/
I found only TC and Thunderbird; but Thunderbird started showing me stuff about setting a mail and address and everything, TC just opened it.
It's extremely popular in Hungary, almost everyone has it installed. I've been using in for at least 20 years. When I moved to the UK 10 years ago I was quite surprised that nobody knew it. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=%2...
Fascinating. I used it in the '00s and would never have thought to try it again. Why don't out think it's so popular in Hungary? And Cuba, Czechia, Slovakia...? UTF-8 capabilities? I'm wondering it if is similar to Emacs Dired
I don't think it's UTF-8 as Windows has been able to handle non-English alphabet letters for ages. I don't not know whether it has any specific, location related reason. I can work a lot faster with it than with File Explorer.
It's like the Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies. They are extremely popular here, in Germany, Austria, Italy but the rest of the world have not even heard about them. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=%2Fm%2F0...
We even have a statue of him at a frequented area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer
Very useful, I bought it years ago and used it on Windows. I've been using only Linux for about 10 years now, but I'd like to use Total Commander on Linux. Double Commander is open source, cross-platform and written with Lazarus / FPC : https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ But ... I am not able not to use Midnight Commander ...
What I always miss with these alternatives compared to TC is that they don't work like a terminal when typing. For instance in TC when I type 'cd ..' it navigates one directory up in the focused panel. While in Double Commander it starts to search for 'cd ..'. I don't want to click on the bottom text bar each time I want to execute a command. Maybe this can be configured but I cannot find the right setting.
I've tried several TC GUI clones for Linux and Mac and every single one i've tried missed the terminal function, so I still use MC.
If anyone can point me to a GUI one that works like mc...
I tried Total Commander while I was still using Windows but in the end settled on Servant Salamander (later renamed to Altap Salamander). Somehow I liked it better haptically than Total Commander at the time. Sadly development of it stopped a few years ago and it is now free for everybody. Download it here: https://www.altap.cz/ Nowadays I use Krusader and Linux.
> Servant Salamander Does not support Unicode in filenames. They had plans for it like 10 years ago but they never actually got around to do it. I ditched Salamander for Freecommander years ago primarily for this reason. Freecommander is in active development as well. https://freecommander.com/en/summary/
I've done things that people thought were magic. It was TC. There are about twenty similar programs, all descended from the Norton Commander. Any one of them is enormously better than the file managers that come with most OSs, especially windows. Ive read estimates that say you're about four times as productive if you use on, and I think that may be very conservative. There are a lot of things you can't do without on…
> I don't like that program. it makes things easier than they should be.
Why are they trying to make things difficult for people?
I'd not used or seen a 2-pane file manager since about 1993 and I never missed them.
It's ubiquitous in central Europe and most people sneer at OS file managers. I was amazed and baffled.
I am perfectly capable of using them and occasionally did in the late 1980s, but I don't normally use them and have no need. My Czech friends and colleagues are as amazed and baffled as I am by them.
I easily do this stuff in the Windows Explorer or Mac Finder, but mostly I work on Linux in Nemo. I can do all this stuff and sometimes I have shown people how and they are amazed that I can do stuff that they think impossible.
My overall conclusion is that a lot of FOSS development is driven by people who don't know how to properly use the tools that the OS came with.
I keep hearing about "editing at the speed of thought" in Vim and so on. Users have to learn the keystrokes because that's the primary UI. Result, when you know it, it's fast.
Well, newsflash. Windows 3 had keystrokes for everything and by Win95 it was very customisable and extensible as well. If you learn to use the keyboard, the entire OS and all apps work as fast as Vim.
When I see the many Windows-like desktops for Linux that can't do a vertical taskbar properly (MATE, LXQt, Cinnamon, Enlightenment) then I know they were cloned from Windows by someone who didn't know how to use Windows.
When I see a hamburger menu on a computer with a keyboard, I know that that developer didn't know how to use a GUI properly.
When I see CSD window decorations, I know that that developer didn't know how to use a windowing GUI properly.
For all the MacOS dual pane file-manager fans: I tried them all and only recently discovered Marta ( https://marta.sh/ ) which is now my favourite file manager!
What about Nimble Commander ( https://magnumbytes.com )? I’ve been using it for years and it’s great. Did you try it and if so, how does it compare to Marta?