Are Terminal File Managers Really Worth The Effort?

I'm a big fan of terminal file managers and I think you should at least give them a try but are they really worth the effort.
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[@BrodieRobertson]

Before someone else mentions it, I mispoke and said that Emacs uses Lua, I know it uses LISP

[@mrfluffy9273]

It actually uses ELISP.... i am sorry I had to.

[@eriklundstedt9469]

On a related note, I use a Lisp dialect called fennel to configure the xplr file manager, the xplr file manager is usually configured in lua (I do the same thing for all of my lua-configured-programms (tym and wezterm for terminals, awesome wm,hilbiSH shell and luakit Web-browser to name a few) as fennel is "transpiled" to lua and therefore mostly compatible with it) Edit: feel free to use any part of this comment for a video idea,

[@eriklundstedt9469]

@@mrfluffy9273 LoL

[@tireseas]

I'd be shocked if emacs, being the fantastic operating system it is, didn't have a lua interpreter somewhere. If not someone should get on that for the lulz.

[@shapkofil4708]

I was just about to interject for a moment

[@streetcoder76]

I love the Norton Commander since my 80286 and so glad that there is a free software clone which even is capable of moving files to remote locations. It just works on every machine and I don't want to learn a new file manager every time I switch to a new desktop environment. It feels so good using the old cherry keyboard with MX blue switches from my 90's DOS PC and the Midnight Commander.

[@AllanSavolainen]

Midnight Commander is the best, though it has some issues, like running out of memory when moving couple million files etc. But so very very handy to use with the integrated ftp/scp/etc support.

[@iodreamify]

Just quickly navigating between directories, without always refreshing the view with ls, inside miller columns makes installing and sometimes using a file manager worth it to me. And of course ranger does so much stuff besides that it's really useful.

[@GustavoMsTrashCan]

It's all about the "mental gymnastics", really -- having to type a bazillion words just to display a picture on your screen is (logically) more time consuming than just double-clicking said picture with your mouse.

[@AnalyticMinded]

Had you made this video earlier this year, I would be here ranting against tui file managers. I had previously used ranger but could never manage to use it as efficiently as a gui fm. However, a couple of months ago I forced myself to learn more about ranger, and even changed Nemo's keyboard shortcut to open ranger instead, just to force myself out of the habit of constantly opening Nemo. Little by little I started to get the hang of it. Now I love it! I guess I just needed to force myself to transition. I'm now using only the cli and tui for file managing.

[@ransan]

I was genuinely interested in terminal file managers, but for my use case it often ended up feeling unnecessary. For quick navigation I setup a few variables used in combination with zsh's autocd. To name a couple of examples $CFG takes me to config, $DW takes me to downloads. I know it's a weird solution but it works for me. I know that it's possible to get media previews in a terminal, but the GUI ones just do it by default and usually require no extra steps.

[@gettriggered_ian3269]

Based

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Bash has autocd too. I don't use zsh because (Gentoo) Linux is my main OS at home and I work on Red Hat servers at work, often on customer sites. I see no point to learning two types of shell because I can't install zsh on a customer server just because I would happen to use it at home - bash is on every single server. As someone who has been using Linux since 1996 (UNIX for a bit longer) and worked with it for about 20 years, if you want to forge a career in Linux then learn the "lowest common denominator" tools that you know will be on every machine you work on - vim, sed, awk, bash, etc. "Learn once, use everywhere."

[@QmVuamFtaW4]

SANSAN RANSAN

[@Chalisque]

I finally took the time, thanks to this vid, to read a decent tutorial on mc, and to install and try ranger.

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

Ranger and Midnight Commander both are good terminal file manager applications. Midnight Commander also comes with a text editor called Midnight Commander Edit. It's a Nano-like text editor with some syntax highlighting features. A pointing device like a mouse can also be used.

[@leftymclefterson582]

Midnight Commander (and Norton Commander before it) is still my fav :)

[@borglessborglet]

Can you view unicode or utf8(16) text files in MC?

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

@@borglessborglet I didn't try. I think UTF8 won't be displayed properly.

[@kj_sh604]

I've used terminal file managers a lot when I was new to Linux (maybe like 2-3 years into it) just because I thought it was cool and rather efficient. Some of them were also great when you're setting up an Arch Install and you don't have a WM/DE or even X installed yet 😂 right now though, 11 years into using Linux full-time… I just take what's easy 😅 I use the archinstall script when I can and I use Xfce's Thunar File Manager under awesomewm. I think it's the best since it can still be used almost fully keyboard-driven while not having to deal with small quirks of a terminal File Manager ++ adding keybinds and new functions to Thunar are really easy and can be done in the GUI. I would love to go back to different set-ups when it comes to TUI File Managers, Window Managers, terminal emulators, and the like… but awesome-wm, thunar, and my current software stack is just waaaay too comfy now 😂 + I've been using this set-up for almost 5 years and I've never been more productive 😅. It's really a "to each their own" type of ordeal.

[@lpanebr]

Neovim uses lua. I love LF with the dragon drag and drop you showed in other video. But what is most amaizing for me is the ability to preview whatever type of file. I preview compressed files, images, PDFs, word/excel, XML and scripts with syntax highlighting etc. And the best part: it's blazingly fast!

[@YannMetalhead]

I didn't knew CLI file managers exited so I've created a bunch of aliases that basically make the terminal acts like a file manager. Now using my aliases is far more efficient than a CLI file manager. E.g. The command 'd /Folder_of_choice': It clears the terminal Enters the Folder_of_choice Display files ranked by size And show the total size of all files in the folder If you creative with your aliases, the terminal can become the best file manager.

[@hellzbellz1234]

terminal file managers are great for getting a general sense of where your files are located. i also like using them when i dont have a gui setup, as soon as you boot into archlinux you can run sudo pacman -S ranger and have a file manager to quickly do stuff

[@xBZZZZyt]

I like "mc" (it's in default debian and ubuntu repository). You can use mouse if you use GUI terminal program like xterm. Can connect with FTP and SSH. Comes with "mcedit" text editor. Not many obscure keyboard combinations.

[@LordHonkInc]

I'm pretty happy with Nautilus as my default file explorer (I know there's probably better ones, but over the years I've customized it so much to my liking that I keep coming back for one small feature or another), but I've recently explored TUI file explorers and it fits the niche of "it's too much hassle doing this with cp and mv, but I don't need the thumbnails and caching of a full-fat GUI program" (for example, as an illustrator I kinda need thumbnails in my day-to-day, but with folders full of images it can take a good second or two for Nautilus to process the contents of one; if I just need to go off the file names, e.g. to clean up backup versions, lf is much more responsive), and given that they're, like, minuscule in size compared to other applications I don't feel bad about having one installed for the once or twice a week that I use it.

[@MarkusHobelsberger]

Terminal File Managers are a godsend on servers without a GUI. Navigating huge file system structures with just cd can be a pain.

[@caubert]

Have used Midnight Commander since forever... Norton Commander nostalgia : )

[@darukutsu]

midnight is good. When I'm on Windows I'm using Far Manager. But on linux I've switched from mc to nnn just because it has vim binds and and it's easy to create custom plugins.

[@n1vz3r]

can't imagine my life without mc

[@caubert]

on win yeah definitely Far Manager

[@luigibraun7095]

I only use the arrow keys and shift+s in ranger and it has already made my life way easier. I can't imagine ever going back to spamming ls and cd

[@TomeOfKnowledge74]

Two CLI packages I install on all of my systems: ranger, ncdu. If you're ever stuck unable to load the GUI, these give you a lot of power to diagnose.

[@Voshchronos]

Thank you for recommending ncdu! Had never heard of it. It'll be extremely useful.

[@hakovatube]

yazi has grown on me recently. It has sane defaults and doesn't require much customization. It is also fast like lf.

[@thingsiplay]

I use Vifm (+Uberzug +Kitty), but my main problem is that no drag and drop support with mouse exists. That is why I still use Dolphin a gui filemanager.

[@lpanebr]

@brody has a video on setting up drag and drop on LF using an app called dragon. I use it and it's fantastic.

[@thingsiplay]

@@lpanebr I saw that video (before I was using Vifm) and considered it. But it is still a non optimal use with extra program in between. I'll look into it, maybe it is better than none. I was thinking of writing something to help me with that matter too, so it is interesting how other solutions work. Can you please name me the application? It is hard to search in web or KZbin videos without the name.

[@lpanebr]

@@thingsiplay search for: dragon drag and drop terminal brodie robertson and you'll find it.

[@thingsiplay]

@@lpanebr Thanks! Edit: dragon-drop is up and running.

[@bullpup1337]

mouse? whats a mouse?

[@syrefaen]

I use them both for different purposes. Ranger & Dolphin, after I forgot about image previews in ranger I just use the "defaults"

[@fleurcode]

I do have 1 terminal file manager i use, Midnight Commander (MC) is the best

[@PinakiGupta82Appu]

Make a video about the Wezterm terminal emulator.

[@madthumbs1564]

Ranger makes for an awesome file picker for Qutebrower! LF is great too, if you have a day to spend on it (couldn't get it to be a file picker though). I'm glad I learned CLI before getting into the TUIs. Some things are just easier in CLI (using wild cards).

[@anon_y_mousse]

I would say the reason to use a terminal file manager is because you can do everything that a GUI file manager can do, but you can use more keyboard shortcuts which is something a terminal user tends to like to do more. Along with the fact that you don't need to type a full file name out so you can very accurately select and delete/rename/move a file whereas from the terminal proper you'd have to either type it out fully or tab complete through potentially dozens of similarly named files. Now, from my shell I've got readline setup so I can hit tab, complete to the first match, then shift+tab to go back to the common root, type a few more characters then tab for more, wash, rinse, repeat as needed, but in some directories, usually things downloaded from others, it can be annoying. Especially if we're dealing with varying cases of file names.

[@Henry-sv3wv]

>because you can do everything that a GUI file manager can do can't do image and video preview icons thumbnail preview

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@Henry-sv3wv Some can, but you might not consider such a terminal to be a terminal at that point.

[@YvanDaSilva]

Keep up the great work! I use anything that's productive when I need it.

[@ravipratapmishra7013]

It comes handy when you are in remote server, via ssh

[@merulox]

I think so because GUI file managers can be operated with the keyboard pretty well too (especially KDE ones) but I’ll listen to what you have to say

[@BigFunnyGiant]

File managers have always been weird to me. Since I started on DOS even when I first installed Windows 95 it took time to get myself used to Explorer instead of using the command line. I still have alternative terminals on my Windows laptop even now, but, perhaps I should give a terminal file manager a shot. I think I will try lf on my VPSes.

[@mariogutierrez4989]

I switched from lf to yazi. Easier to configure w/ Lua. Handles graphics protocols automatically.

[@comically_large_chungus]

I aliased cd to a function that performs cd and does an ls with one command so navigating directories in the terminal is a pretty good experience imo. I also have thunar which I'll use to go into my downloads and move or delete files.

[@bobbybologna3029]

Every time I had one of these installed like vifm, I would set it up and just never open it again lol, i just can't remember to use it.

[@BendyLemmy]

Haha and you should mention that some strange people (like me) will open Dolphin, hit F4, and use CLI for navigating and other stuff - but have a GUI on top that follows me too. Best of both worlds! It's nice to use Dolphin and jump 'zi' to one of your TV folders, for example.

[@excidium_]

It's useful to get instant feedback while manipulating files with cli commands without leaving the terminal Nowdays I just pop Dolphin's builtin terminal though

[@lightspeedlife8299]

using cli to manage files is like using ed to edit text. it's not that it can't be done, not even that it can't be done efficiently. It's just that for nontrivial operations, there are numerous more effective alternatives, each with their own particular flaws.

[@robertcoyle9071]

First thing I grab when I do a fresh install is spacefm. it supports tabs and four panels and the background turns red when you're in root so you dont do anything stupid. Changing permissions is easy so you don't have to fiddle with chown and chmod commands. Unfortunately its not in arch official so you'll have to build it from AUR. Or grab pcmanfm while you install which is almost as good. That and terminator are my must-haves with any build.

[@androth1502]

i love my 2 pane file managers and midnight commander is one of my favorites, since i can use it on windows and linux. sure it's dated and if i were writing one, i would do things a bit differently, but it's better than good for what i need. recently i've been thinking about doing a tty only setup, maybe using tmux as a stand-in TWM. and launching gui applications without a DE, using just xorg when needed (mostly for web browsing). not sure how well this will work in the setup i have in mind. i'm wondering. i've never used tmux. would exporting environment varialbes in one panes be recognized globally in all the panes? i want to create a bookmark script that exports the PWD as an environment variable that i can use in all the panes (i think with this, i can use 2 panes in tmux as a defacto dual pane file manager). i'm also now wondering how well fish shell would perform in this setup. i think for this, i will be using debian server with minimum install and build the apps i need from source.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Absolutely use the software that works for you and don't let "software fashionistas" tell you that any piece of software is "old fashioned". One of the best file managers that I have ever used was Directory Opus on the Commodore Amiga - if you've never seen it, it was dual pane (like mc) but had a good number of configurable buttons across the bottom that mean, for example, you could select a number of files in one pane, click a button and then would be zipped up into an archive in the other window. I don't use just mc, but I do use it with ranger - ultimately, they are both small applications and I can just use the one that works for me at the time I need to use it.

[@homfes]

I don't understand what you want to do with Tmux as some sort of dual pane FM.

[@androth1502]

@@homfes exactly what i said, i want to export temporary environment variables from one panel, jump to another and it should be available there without having to restart the terminal. i don't know if this is possible with tmux.

[@homfes]

@@androth1502 Environment variables even within the same session don't seem to be shared between splits. Instead of thinking about env variables, perhaps just write a file at /tmp so all other shells can see its contents. I just don't quite understand why you need to share a panel's PWD with another panel to make your setup act like a dual pane FM.

[@androth1502]

@@homfes my idea is not going to work. i've experimenting with fzf instead.

[@und3rpr]

I use double commander whenever I need to move too many files.

[@tehklevster]

Use the best tool for the job at hand. Path of least resistance and all that.

[@jort93z]

I sometimes use terminal file manager if my files are named horribly(eg. untitled.png, untitled(1).png...) and I want to look at the previews.

[@Auguste86]

recently i haven't been able to open txt/vim/cbr (comics) files in LF so I switched back to Ranger... and the drag-and-drop feature in Ranger works perfectly. I'm going to miss LF

[@Gornius]

I'd say - no unless you're system admin and SSH often. But then, there's sftp protocol that is usable by both Nautilus and Dolhpin (and probably more GUI file managers).

[@denizkendirci]

i think they do, especially if you don't use a desktop environment or window manager and you just use tty.

[@night_fiend6326]

I use Dolphin for a file manager. I do have a customised ZSH in Konsole that means that when I cd it prints the directories and files though.

[@purplelord8531]

nyanners sweatshirt? anime directory? is there a second channel I'm missing

[@netbotcl586]

I navigate by using Dolphin with its builtin terminal, it automatically switch directory on the GUI when I switch directory on the terminal and vice-versa.

[@rodrigosouto9502]

Nothing against CLI file managers, but for me XFE File Manager is simply the best. And sometimes I'm gonna use CLI commands to specific stuff.

[@bullpup1337]

keyboard is always faster and more ergonomic, if you are well practiced

[@TheSolidSnakeOil]

Pretty every application I use is cli or a tui. When I'm working, I'd rather keep my hands on the keyboard rather than jumping back an forth with a mouse. And I've gotten so used to it, it hard to go back. Like how I'm horrendous playing games with gamepad after a couple decades of exclusively playing with a keyboard and mouse. The only gui apps I use, on any consistent basis, is brave and steam.

[@timtracked]

nice video i started my linux journey with midnight commander (also a cli file manager) but i dont make use of it anymore ...

[@CMDRSweeper]

Well the question as to why did hit me when I first got to hear about these file managers. However you are correct, if I needed to copy several files to a folder on my server, they would have been the go to choice to use if it happened often enough.

[@gimcrack555]

I know all the navigation commands. But love my CLI file manager's. I been using ranger and nnn. Tweak them to fit my needs perfectly.

[@gen-zboomer]

I have used a terminal file manager for about a month and a half and I don't think I will ever switch back to clicking on things. All hail macros, computers should be based around the keyboard.

[@manthanpatil6410]

Usually idc how people pronounced programs but chmod got me. Idk if its actually pronounced like that i prefer it like C H mod

[@EnderKill98]

I'll need to look into those at some point. But for now, I don't see the usecase. I would probably need to get familiar with a lot of shortcuts very well for it to be faster. I usually just use Dolphin (imo the most fully featured file manager with a lot of nice addons like hash sums, quick glanze at format dependant file info in the preview, ...). More often I simply use terminal commands (cd, mv, cp, ...) though. You can select multiple sources for all like in ranger (cp FileA FileB FileC dest/). I understand you if the usecase would be on bash. Using zsh with navigatable autocomplete is the game changer for me in the terminal. When you're in a directory, selecting multiple files with tab and arrows is just super fast.

[@breadpirateroberts4946]

i like using ranger but its basically just cli navigation with some extra bells and whistles. you can get by just using cli and then nautilus or something for images. ranger does have image preview support but you cant view thumbnails in a grid so its not as useful. a terminal file manager is a neat thing to have but its not really necessary, i find myself ignoring it often

[@Drazil100]

I have been using vifm for over a year at this point and I would personally say the point of a terminal file manager is speed. If you are using a GUI file manager its slow and you need to click on icons to go in and out of directories. If you are using cd you have to both remember where your files are and type them out. Tab completion helps a lot but nothing is speedier than using your arrow keys or vim keys to zip in and out of directories or being able to visual select multiple files and cw to open up vim and edit all the selected file names at once using the full power of vim to essentially automate the process.

[@bullpup1337]

to be honest vifm is great but zoxide can be even faster. Vifm is great for other reasons.

[@callisoncaffrey]

Let the kids use their gui stuff. For remote boxes, which children usually don't have, you need something light like nnn.

[@RealMazharHussain]

For simple tasks, I don't need anything except nautilus. I love its simplicity. For complex file management needs, I use coreutils commands directly.

[@kristun216]

The use case that I might use it for is probably solved by witting bash functions so I probably won't end up using terminal file manager

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

I use a combination of both - in my workflow I don't think functions negate terminal file managers, or vice versa.

[@raph151515]

personally I prefer using UI that mimics CLI

[@soanvig]

Tbh I don't have any file manager, and I just don't need any. I use my PC for work (programming) and gaming. It was surprising for me when during new setup I forgot about manager, and after a month I realized I dont have it - and don't need it.

[@soanvig]

If I have to move files or something, that is during work so I do it in IDE in project directory.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I guess in the cases where you do need one the programs you use have built in solutions

[@fish3977]

for me a terminal file manager is very much a "why not?" type of tool given how small they tend to be when I am browsing my collection of dank meems or latest anime, I am generally gonna do that trough the GUI but when I need to do something a bit more productive and I can't for the life of me remember where I put something it is generally way easier to check around the trees on a file manager than than by *cd*ing around and moving from GUI file manager back to terminal, let alone from terminal to the GUI file manager, is just not fun

[@borglessborglet]

I have usecase for console terminal manager. A corporate policy that is forced on my work machine allow admin only in command line. A simple task of checking the contents of logs from service that ran under different user is a pain. Especially, if do not even know what you are looking for and just looking to around to make sense of things. Terminal Fila Manager is way easier. To bad, non of them play nice with windows.. :( Far Manager buggy and Russian, Midnight Commander does not know a thing about unicode text files. bummer..

[@lukajeliciclux3074]

I use Vifm because for me it is perfect for my use case. Bulk rename files.

[@crazycatman4171]

I use KDE Dolphin with integrated terminal or for pure CLI I use Yakuake.

[@breadmoth6443]

I am partial to Midnight Commander b/c nostalgia.

[@freedomextremist7921]

Nice Nyanners hoodie.

[@srivathsansudarsanan3372]

From programmer perspective gui is more breakable comparing to cli which is lightweight

[@dekksherton6824]

only if your using tmux or the likes of i3/sway/xmonad etc

[@dungeon4971]

I use a terminal file manager most of the time, it's just faster to use than using a gui to move and open files

[@ArmiaKhairy]

I use CLI programs when there is no gui alternative ( or no gui) like on a server or WSL.

[@ozgur2845]

What is your terminal font?

[@BrodieRobertson]

Jetbrains Mono Medium

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

If you set up your shell configurations enough (hell, leaving as-is for some people), you don't need any sort of file manager whatsoever.

[@sergiuoanes4635]

I would never switch from Ranger. It does everything I need in blink of an eye.

[@bullpup1337]

can it show images and pdfs?

[@estevaomendes2305]

I like Ranger for being already pretty feature rich and out-of-the-box most of the time. It already have a preview script, good defaults and it's easier to configure, but compared to lf it's way too sluggish to my taste, at least on my old machine. I'm using lf now but it took me a good amount of time to customized it to a usable state, but after the more laborious part lf turns out to be really good and lightning fast compared to Ranger.

[@darukutsu]

NNN is my go to.

[@aaronspeedy7780]

I use a terminal file manager to easily open mpv when I'm binging some series

[@breadpirateroberts4946]

cant you automatically play video files in order from a directory with mpv? its been a while since i used it so i dont remember

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

@@breadpirateroberts4946 have to rename them with numbers at the start of each filename.

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

Or else it will just do alphabetical order.

[@breadpirateroberts4946]

@@keyboardwarrior6296 coincidentally ranger has a bulkrename function that is useful for that exact situation. i think its possible to do it with just vim as well but i never bothered to figure it out

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

@@breadpirateroberts4946 you'd still have to do each individually without anything else to indicate what order they should be in.

[@sidmaz666]

yes

[@safatkhan676]

WTF! You forgot to make your case for why anyone should even bother. I'm of course assuming that one is already working from within a DE.

Gnome Commander

[@MrG0CE]

I USE A TFM BECAUSE OF 3 KEY REASONS TO ME: 1: IT USES LESS RESOURCES. 2: I CAN OPEN NVIM IN IT. 3: IT'S WAY EASIER AND FAST TO NAVIGATE.

[@notimportant7682]

Tbh, I used ranger and now lf because I couldn't find a gui file manager that replicated finder's column view on Mac os. At least not one that that wasn't hideous

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

That may be the case but I find Apple's disdain of the privacy of their users and its "walled garden" policies to also be hideous.

[@notimportant7682]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 same, which is why I never bought a second Mac after my 2007 MacBook died, that's precisely why I want the good parts of apples UX replicated on linux

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@notimportant7682 Each to his own, I guess. I am happy with the GUI options Linux has already but the wife is "all Apple" these days and I get the aesthetics, if nothing else.

[@notimportant7682]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 column view isn't an aesthetic preference, it is an efficiency preference, as music producer and artist, I manage a LOT of files and there's not always a sensible way of organizing them, remembering individual names of samples or the path to certain files isn't always an option, being able to quickly brush though folders and see the contents of each without having to traverse into each folder or open and close accordions is often a necessity.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@notimportant7682 I work in cyber-security, I too manage many files. That is not a task entirely exclusive to someone who works in music. All you're giving me is your opinion and I have given mine. We probably disagree. Fine, noted and we're done.

[@starmountpictures]

yazi !!

[@25NN25]

effort? nnn is comfy

[@jeffsadowski]

I think it is a waste of time from the terminal perspective. But it isn't what I think; it could be helpful for some just not for me.

[@leonardocafferata6697]

I use fff and have no issues whatsoever.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I'm always impressed when I here someone actually uses fff

[@gagnon124]

is lfm the same as lf?

[@singletona082]

Even though my setup is literally just me SSHing into a raspberry pi on my desk to use as a media server and FTP client for file transfer between tablet and everything else? I find CLI file manager tools to be pretty useful. Imagine how handy people who SSH into actual work machines across the country feel. Edit: Also I came up from late DOS/early Windows 3.11. So there is something... Homey about the process.

[@regexPattern]

For moving between common folders like your configs file using something like cd you can use zoxide

[@AliAlmahdi]

I use emacs for almost everything.

[@BrodieRobertson]

That sounds like something an emacs user would do

[@AliAlmahdi]

@@BrodieRobertson exactly. I enjoy your content. Keep it up. Best of luck my friend.

[@mitchmarq428]

Emacs uses lisp, not lua.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I have no idea why I said Lua

[@alaunaenpunto3690]

Ranger is the only file manger that offers a dedicated preview pane, which is mainly why I use it.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Lf does that as well.

[@napolitan271]

I'm not going to open a terminal window just to cd into a movies folder. That would be too sweaty, specially on a tilling window manager where I would have to dedicate half my screen just to access an anime folder. About GUI file managers like Nautilus and Thunar, I think they are garbage and should die in a fire together with most gtk apps, and unless I want to install the whole KDE Plasma DE as a dependency to have Dolphin there is only Ranger left, which I can put on a scratchpad and live a simple life.

[@breadpirateroberts4946]

pcmanfm has a qt port

[@BrodieRobertson]

I need to try out the QT port at some point

[@debasishraychawdhuri]

Yazi is a better gui file manager than gui file manager.

[@francescopremsolidoro3858]

7:45 wait, emacs uses lua?

[@BrodieRobertson]

I mispoke, I meant to say LISP

[@francescopremsolidoro3858]

@@BrodieRobertson fair enough, you had me confused there

[@Nikolai2i]

Anime folder was found. another weeb was confirmed.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Did the Nyanners hoodie not set that off

[@Nikolai2i]

@@BrodieRobertson I literally didn’t noticed it LMAO 🤣🤣🤣🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[@leftymclefterson582]

Midnight Commander is still the best :P 93

[@topherfungus8424]

I mainly use vifm, only because every single graphical file manager I've found in Linux aren't even as good as 1990's windows explorer.

[@BurgerKingHarkinian]

You must've only used a single graphical file manager on Linux then and also have the misfortune to use the worst one in existence too. There is nothing worse than windows explorer to this day. This abomination doesn't even support tabs after all these years!

[@_vsnwprintf_s_l]

dired :)

[@thomaskosvic6103]

Text based editors (in addition to text based file managers) are also "not worth the effort" when gedit, e.g., is readily available.