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Re: Total Commander

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Post by sceadu »

executesorder66 wrote: post #78
AugustusCrunch wrote: post #38

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…

> A friend worked at a place where management disabled the search function in windows, probably because people were getting stuff done. > I don't like that program. it makes things easier than they should be. Why are they trying to make things difficult for people?

Infantilization and job security

Re: Total Commander

#93

Post by rpaddock »

executesorder66 wrote: post #78
AugustusCrunch wrote: post #38

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…

> A friend worked at a place where management disabled the search function in windows, probably because people were getting stuff done. > I don't like that program. it makes things easier than they should be. Why are they trying to make things difficult for people?

"...disabled the search function in windows ... Why are they trying to make things difficult for people?"

If you do embedded system development it is best to turn Windows Search off.

Windows Search will write index files to devices that are not expecting to have such files written to them, which often bricks the devices. Old Freescale/NXP boards are particularly prone to this, until their bootloaders are updated, which can only be done on a Windows-7 machine.

Oddly if you do turn Windows Search off via registry key, then the Microsoft Store stops working correctly. I've never found that behavior documented anywhere.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by MikusR »

actionfromafar wrote: post #41
_giorgio_ wrote: post #29

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/

When I tried Dopus didn't even allow to browse inside archives as folders. Has that changed?

Re: Total Commander

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Post by hulitu »

lproven wrote: post #86
pacifika wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Total commander isn’t FOSS. Ironically windows 11 can’t do vertical taskbars. And where in windows can you change the system shortcuts?

> Total commander isn’t FOSS. I'm aware of that. There are lots of FOSS equivalents, though. Including, I believe, on Windows. Wikipedia lists 23 of which I think -- haven't checked -- the majority are FOSS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man... > Ironically windows 11 can’t do vertical taskbars. True. Easily fixed with Explorer Patcher, though. Which, ironically, is FOSS. > And where in win…

Some of us are forced to use Windows in a corporate environment where your exaple programs to "fix" the wonderful OS are forbidden by IT policy.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by derAndyG »

Oh wow This hits some strange memories My dad installed it on our family PCs back then. I used it through my whole childhood and teens until I moved to MAC.

Thanks for sharing

Re: Total Commander

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Post by butz »

Best software program. Period. Used from good old days when it was called "Windows Commander", and, admittedly, first versions were used in unregistered mode. While I have a license now and am legal user of software, unfortunately I'm on Linux now. I would gladly pay again just to be able to use it on Linux as a native application. Sad, that Linux port never took off.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by butz »

Daril wrote: post #17

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 ...

Tried Double Commander several times, GTK and QT versions, and while it is almost exact copy of TC, it seemed somehow "off", and I never could use it properly.

Re: Total Commander

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Post by justsomehnguy »

BelleOfTheBall wrote: post #45
AugustusCrunch wrote: post #38

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 remember once I needed to rename a bunch of files to a template similar to NewName_001, upwards of 100. TC lets you just set a name pattern and follows it, which meant I did it in about 10 seconds. My colleague took 10 minutes and a lot of groaning about "why isn't there a better way?".

That works similar in Windows Explorer
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