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What's your favorite file explorer? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm on gnome using the default file explorer (nautilus) and it's fine, but I wish there were more ways to display files, I like MacOS style. What's your favorite?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 years ago (5 children)

I love Thunar. I can open a terminal right in the current directory. Unfortunately you often have to install the icon set manually when you install it without Gnome.

I don't know what Mac style means.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago

I love Thunar. I can open a terminal right in the current directory.

Dolphin can do this, too, fyi. Not saying Thunar is bad, but that wouldn't be Thunar's killing feature for me. I like the multi-window behavior of Thunar and how it comes with sane defaults and does everything the Unix way: exactly a file manager, nothing more.

Dolphin does a bit more, but is still a very good FM. I use it because I have grown to like KDE Plasma.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

This is MacOS style: http://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/OS-X-Yosemite-show-full-path-in-Finder-window-titlebar-Mac-screenshot-001.png

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

https://teddit.net/r/linux4noobs/comments/hwbnxx/trying_to_install_pantheon_file_manager/

12 months ago

Is there any other way through which I can install Pantheon File Manager. I wanted it because it has the column like file structure as in macOs.

If you are willing to go Elementary OS or Ubuntu 18.04 + PPA then that seems an option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

Interesting style. I think no Linux file manager can display in that style.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago

Same, thunar is my fave graphical one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

I was thinking I didn't like the direction nautilus was taking, thunar looks nice, I'll give it a try

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You can also try Caja, which is "the old Nautilus" from the MATE DE (continuation of Gnome 2, while modernising the codebase).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

sounds good, I'll check it out