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Can't live without Double Commander. If anyone is wondering how it looks: https://ibb.co/Xbbp9qM
Nice Motif window decorations. What window manager is it? This is what my Double Commander looks like: https://paste.dbohdan.com/doublecmd.mr2hnji.png . (Small screenshot because I am connected to my computer from an iPad at half its native resolution.)
Was a very cool product to bring multi-tasking into the DOS world.
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Can't live without Double Commander. If anyone is wondering how it looks: https://ibb.co/Xbbp9qM
Nice Motif window decorations. What window manager is it? This is what my Double Commander looks like: https://paste.dbohdan.com/doublecmd.mr2hnji.png . (Small screenshot because I am connected to my computer from an iPad at half its native resolution.)
*DESKTOP is somewhat in the middle between MS-Windows and Norton Commander...* Does anyone here recall the intuitive nature of Norton Commander, especially in terms of file operations? This may be reaching back about three decades, so my recollection might be a bit hazy. As I recall, it was a viable alternative to Windows Explorer even during the era of Windows 3.1. One particular aspect that stands out to me was the…
Norton-style commanders were huge in xUSSR. FAR and Dos Navigator were among the most popular, and in the end FAR won it (as it was windows app and got rich ecosystem of plugins). They were good not only due dual panel interface (newer versions were actually multi-panel, where you cold go as many 2 panel "workspaces" as you want), but they enabled extremely efficient keyboard only workflows. Windows couldn't get it e…
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Norton-style commanders were huge in xUSSR. FAR and Dos Navigator were among the most popular, and in the end FAR won it (as it was windows app and got rich ecosystem of plugins). They were good not only due dual panel interface (newer versions were actually multi-panel, where you cold go as many 2 panel "workspaces" as you want), but they enabled extremely efficient keyboard only workflows. Windows couldn't get it e…
Don't forget Volkov Commander ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkov_Commander ). It was convenient for bootable floppies because of its small size and self-contained design. Far 2 has a Linux (as well as macOS and BSD) port that is quite active: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l . Far Manager was what I switched to from Norton Commander. These days I prefer Double Commander, a cross-platform Total Commander workalike:…