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Drew DeVault

Are any of the Linux GUI file managers good and if so which ones

11 April at 15:10 | Open on fosstodon.org
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chfkch :nixos: :rust:

@drewdevault
Define good, what is your use-case?

11 April at 15:12 | Open on ruhr.social
sean doherty :archlinux:

@drewdevault bookmarking this thread. I rarely use them and use thunar because I am too lazy to look up anything else.

11 April at 15:14 | Open on mstdn.social
halva(0)

@drewdevault "good" is subjective, but i find dolphin decent enough

11 April at 15:15 | Open on wetdry.world
Aks :quake_verified:​ :kde:
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@drewdevault

I'm a huge fan of pcmanfm. Very light and performant, good feature set. Has both GTK and Qt versions.

On KDE, I use Dolphin, and it's pretty nice.

11 April at 15:19 | Open on fosstodon.org
doragasu

@drewdevault I still use Midnight Commander, so... no as far as I know πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

11 April at 15:20 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
gianarb

@drewdevault nautilus is good enough for the two times a month I need a GUI to manage files πŸ˜†

11 April at 15:20 | Open on hachyderm.io
Drew DeVault

The only reason I ever need a GUI to manage files is when I want thumbnails to browse a large set of multimedia files

11 April at 15:20 | Open on fosstodon.org
doragasu

@drewdevault Most GUI file managers should work for that use case. Even if they suck for most other ones.

11 April at 15:22 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
Drew DeVault

Looks like pcmanfm it is, thanks all!

In the end it comes down to performance.

11 April at 15:23 | Open on fosstodon.org
R. L. Dane :debian: :openbsd:

@drewdevault

For images, nsxiv is great for this, although not as fast as a file manager that stores thumbnails.

11 April at 15:23 | Open on fosstodon.org
Hugo ι›¨ζžœ

@drewdevault I use nemo for it. It’s reliable and lightweight.

11 April at 15:33 | Open on fosstodon.org
bignose

@drewdevault

I find Nautilus (the file manager default in Gnome) to be fine for this purpose.

But I don't know what needs you have that it lacks.

Often, IME, the lacking features are less about the specific file manager program, and more about what *interactions* are supported: content type conversions, connections to remote protocols, etc. Those tend to live or die depending on what *supporting services* are installed, not the file manager program itself.

11 April at 23:28 | Open on fosstodon.org
Perma

@drewdevault the only task that I have found to be faster on the gui FMs are selecting a bunch of pictures. If you are not looking for that, probably yazi, lf, nnn or simple cd usually works faster. Though i guess you should not be preachers on the latter suggestions.

11 April at 15:20 | Open on fosstodon.org
Quince Pie

@drewdevault
I stopped using GUI file managers a long time ago. But the only one that was decent in my opinion was thunar. Depending on the distro, dolphin can be a pain especially with configuration.

11 April at 15:22 | Open on fosstodon.org
Adam Nelson

@drewdevault Most of them are decent in my experience. I usually use the more full-featured ones (Nemo or Dolphin) because only they can remember settings like "sort my Downloads folder by date but everything else by name". If you don't care about those kinds of features, PcManFM and Thunar are good too, though Thunar is probably the worst of the default file managers by a small margin (still has random crashes and bugs).

11 April at 15:23 | Open on fosstodon.org
Hobs :opensuse: :kde: :linux:

@drewdevault Well it depends on need. I use dolphin and love it.

11 April at 16:39 | Open on social.linux.pizza
Lian Drake

@drewdevault for the GUI it's either pcmanfm or nemo (for the features), but I only use vifm with ueberzugpp for img previews

11 April at 22:22 | Open on floss.social
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