Scrolling a pane is "slow", or simple jumpy. Not enjoyable at all. Plus... 37 euros????
It's about mad efficiency, not enjoyable UI
Total Commander
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Re: Total Commander
#52Has it added a must have undo feature? I remember the author of TC had a weird tak that undo gives you "a false feeling of security" as the reason
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#53I'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've used norton since 1993 IIRC, the 2-pane model is properly baked in my mind. Now with tabs, it is magical. At least to literally all colleagues I've shown it. Lightweight, performant, stable.
Sftp client, great recursive file content search including archives, file comparison, editing files directly in archives, plugins etc.
The thing is, everybody is wow at efficiency boost but almost nobody picks it up afterwards, they go back to slow basic clunky multiple windows. When I see how slow they are (easily 10-20x, more complex stuff they have to use other programs ot cant do at all), even my otherwise calm manners become... less calm.
I've tried gui variants on linux when I was toying with ubuntu few years ago, unstable, slow, basic. I hope its better now.
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#54Still looking for a good replacement on Mac, the software mentioned by this site all are lacking important features.
There are several, one I've used which is kinda similar but not 100% the same is ForkLift
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#55Ever since I’m not using windows anymore I just want Directory Opus to be available on Linux.
or on a Mac, it's the single best file manager app out there!
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#56Very 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 ...
MC has the bonus of retaining the original Norton Commander vibe for console fans, but I personally prefer Double Commander, which is a GUI app and feels more familiar because I went the Norton Commander (DOS) -> Total Commander (Windows) -> Double Commander (Linux) route. BTW, there was a Norton Commander for Windows too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander#Norton_Comman...), but it never gained much traction...
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#57I'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've been looking for a Linux alternative ever since I mostly switched away from Windows a few years ago, and so far this one is the best FOSS alternative I found: https://doublecmd.sourceforge.io/ - it's even written in Pascal, same as TC.
For GNU/Linux, you have Midnight Commander
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#58Still looking for a good replacement on Mac, the software mentioned by this site all are lacking important features.
Marta with single key home-row navigation and other commands is the best Mac file manager, but it's also lacking important features :(
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I am on Linux Mint with Cinnamon (and evaluating to move to Debian testing with Gnome or XFCE when the Wayland support will be available). Installing Krusader would fill my GTK based system with KDE dependencies ... I'm not sure it is a good idea. It looks very well done in any case !
FWIW, the KDE support apps are excellent and disk space is cheap; although I am a KDE user whenever I am on a non-KDE system I invariably end up installing a bunch of them shortly. The dependencies just sit on your disk not doing anything when they're not used, it's not worth having apprehension over installing them unless you are extremely short on disk space or something. You do yourself a disservice by avoiding th…
Just installed, many thanks for the suggestion !
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#60For 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!
Indeed, its ability to do simple navigation with single alpha homerow keys is alone almost worth all the missing functionality (and then there are also programmable extensions)
Unfortunately its pace of development is very slow :(