If didn't read the docs, noticed hkjl moved around, and accidentally deleted 3 folders with ctrl+d seeing if I could scroll down faster. Scary defaults if you have Vim muscle memory.
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Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
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Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
#132Based on the comments here about weird inconsistent keybinds and accidental file deletions, I won't be trying this for now, but I will keep an eye on it. I use ranger very heavily every day, but it being slow pythonware is sometimes a problem with extra large dirs and when changing the sort mode often. lf is too barebones for me, I don't know how to recreate everything I'm used to from ranger. Something fully-feature…
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Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
#133Based on the comments here about weird inconsistent keybinds and accidental file deletions, I won't be trying this for now, but I will keep an eye on it. I use ranger very heavily every day, but it being slow pythonware is sometimes a problem with extra large dirs and when changing the sort mode often. lf is too barebones for me, I don't know how to recreate everything I'm used to from ranger. Something fully-feature…
As an alternative to ranger, I have switched to yazi completely.
Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
#134Love all the terminal tooling that's come out in recent years. I'm this close to chrome and rofi being the only gui I'm using on my work machine. This looks great!
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They don't
However with material design being the norm in gui there is nowadays barely any visual difference between a TUI and a GUI so it only come down to preferences: app optimized for keyboard or mouse use.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Because TUIs never change. No one removes useful options from a TUI because "whitespace is clean". No one is writing useless changes to TUIs so they can feel like their job means something or to chase some bonus. Because GUI design today is very bad and only getting worse.
When I get to read comments like this is when I feel the most heard and understood.
What you describe is pure fad-chasing, so I hope it swings back the other way while I’m still around to enjoy it.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
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Even on HN there's no nuance anymore. I suspect most Linux users don't "hate GUIs" but hate the garbage that GUIs enable, like pointless/stupid transition animations, hard to see flat UIs, dumbing down of preference/setting dialogs, etc. Most GUI design is focused on dumbing things down for first time and beginner users, and most Linux users don't fall into that demographic. If a GUI helps me get my work done faster…
It’s the animations for me. I know it sounds crazy but I am a little bit angry every time I notice an action that is measurably slower than it needs to be because some “UX designer” (should not even be a job based on the BS I’ve seen) needed to justify his salary by blocking the UI process with a whiz-bang animation. Especially an action I have to do many times in a row, or all day long. I wish I could set the iOS global animation time to 0 like you could do back when you could jailbreak. (And no, reduce motion doesn’t help, it just replaces them with crossfades but still wastes the same amount of time)
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Mac OS itself confuses things by forcing apps to be full screen, rather than sizing to the content
> Mac OS itself confuses things by forcing apps to be full screen, rather than sizing to the content I don't understand what you mean. macOS has never forced apps to be full screen.
It doesn't force applications to be fullscreen, but it does have garbage tooling for managing multiple windows on the screen simultaneously. Even windows has better with hotkeys and gestures for snapping to parts of the screen.
Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Even on HN there's no nuance anymore. I suspect most Linux users don't "hate GUIs" but hate the garbage that GUIs enable, like pointless/stupid transition animations, hard to see flat UIs, dumbing down of preference/setting dialogs, etc. Most GUI design is focused on dumbing things down for first time and beginner users, and most Linux users don't fall into that demographic. If a GUI helps me get my work done faster…
It’s the animations for me. I know it sounds crazy but I am a little bit angry every time I notice an action that is measurably slower than it needs to be because some “UX designer” (should not even be a job based on the BS I’ve seen) needed to justify his salary by blocking the UI process with a whiz-bang animation. Especially an action I have to do many times in a row, or all day long. I wish I could set the iOS gl…
>“UX designer” (should not even be a job based on the BS I’ve seen)
UX design is a real and valuable discipline, but it has been largely supplanted by what amounts to a fashion show.
Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager
#139Love all the terminal tooling that's come out in recent years. I'm this close to chrome and rofi being the only gui I'm using on my work machine. This looks great!
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I don't hate GUIs, but TUIs have their benefit. Most prominently it doesn't require display, which most servers don't have, and would take a lot of resources and latency if tunneled remotely.
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#140What is a "nerd font" and why does this app need one?
(Yes I know I could look it up but maybe this will spark a discussion)