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It seems to require the actual windows explorer to be running. Which kinda negates its potential as a shell replacement.
Could somebody please explain how people are ready to invest their own time into development of such projects? I mean it's so risky and at the same time one still has to pay the bills.
I can't answer for the File Pilot author but I've spent many years on writing a file manager. * It's fun to write and to use. It's like craftmanship. * Hopefully some companies/people will realize how many hours they waste using the default OS file manager * It's less risky than developing a game full time (I think) * Sure, I lost a lot of money to not having a normal job but my bills are low and my priority is more…
I've come to realize (mainly by reading comments on this very forum) that, for an increasing amount of people, programming is just a job and they don't see it as an art form or a hobby. They genuinely cannot fathom that someone would spend time on ANY project without being paid.
It's very sad but ultimately society couldn't function of we only hired passion-driven programmers, so eh.
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There are a few good Finder alternatives for macOS, including Path Finder, ForkLift, Commander One, and Double Commander (FOSS).
I ended up with ForkLift after much trial and error. Commander One was nice. Double Commander is also great but not "native" on Mac. Path Finder is super powerful but has a rep for being overcomplicated and also crashy, but I can't personally vouch because it wasn't quite what I was looking for anyway.
Forklift has a couple of things that annoy me daily though. Often I will have to refresh a pane to see a file I know has recently been added. Eg in downloads. I may even have navigated to downloads after the download finished and it's still not visible until I refresh.
The other is that it doesn't reuse existing tabs if I "reveal in finder" or whatever, so after a while there's a million tabs open, most pointing to the same directory.
Please, I beg you dear developer, replace my stupid MacOS finder with your superpowers!
What would be the major features it offers that others do not?
From the screenshots (which are videos), it sure looks a lot like what you would get if you ported KDE's Dolphin to Windows.
[0]: https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/system/dolphin/master/windows/
It seems to require the actual windows explorer to be running. Which kinda negates its potential as a shell replacement.
Maybe I misunderstand what you mean, but Windows Explorer is also the shell on Windows (handles things like the task bar and the desktop icons), so you will always see it running in the background.
Problem occurs when you have programs that dip into explorer's shell components expecting them to be running when that might not be the case. For that case you couldn't fully turn explorer off if you were, for example, trimming down a modern version of windows.
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Between all two-panel clones of the Norton Commander [1] FAR [2] is by far the best of the bunch /rimshot. Very keyboard-oriented, extremely capable, super fast, open source with a vast plug-in library. A console app on top of that and it looks like the original. What's not to like. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander [2] https://www.farmanager.com/
on windows I was partial to Saladin https://saladin.mimec.org/
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I ended up with ForkLift after much trial and error. Commander One was nice. Double Commander is also great but not "native" on Mac. Path Finder is super powerful but has a rep for being overcomplicated and also crashy, but I can't personally vouch because it wasn't quite what I was looking for anyway.
Forklift is the one I settled on as well. I had the experience you describe with Path Finder before and finally I gave up. Forklift has a couple of things that annoy me daily though. Often I will have to refresh a pane to see a file I know has recently been added. Eg in downloads. I may even have navigated to downloads after the download finished and it's still not visible until I refresh. The other is that it doesn'…