Files App Review

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Review of Files App powered by the Slant community.

Files is a powerful and efficient file manager. Its has features like multiple tabs, panes, columns, shell extensions and tags.

This is an open source project and community participation is welcome. To participate please visit https://github.com/files-community/Files

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Pros

Pro
Easy setting management

You can find what is customizible quickly.

Pro
Great UI that compliment Windows 10 and 11

In advent of alternatives, visuals aren't forgotten.

Pro
Has column based navigation

Pro
Looks modern, generally works well

Cons

Con
Not stable enough

Susceptible to hang ups. Drives may just disappear.

Con
Time waister

Between crash, load time and weird behaviour you will lose time even compared to installing multiple software to reproduce same capability.

Con
Lacks description of settings

Hard to figure out what some toggles do. The title of a setting doesn't have expected result sometimes.

Con
Sometimes glitches out and you have to restart using task manager

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Files App Review

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Pros

Pro Easy setting management

Pro Great UI that compliment Windows 10 and 11

Pro Has column based navigation

Pro Looks modern, generally works well

Cons

Con Not stable enough

Con Time waister

Con Lacks description of settings

Con Sometimes glitches out and you have to restart using task manager

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