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krusader
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Versatile
Has everything you might wish for and more.
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Root mode
Dangerous but sometimes useful.
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Multiple tabs
Tabs with other listings, and options to move the tab to the other side.
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Advanced renamer
Via package krename.
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Directory compare
Compare 2 directories on content or file/date and sync them.
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Archive support
Browse archives as folders.
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Worker
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Innumerable button-click file ops are integrated
Rename files, move to other directories and extracting archives are of course a given...BUT THERE'S MORE! Convert media formats, make symlinks, CHMOD, change graphic formats, integrated GPG, filename UPPER/lowercase adjustments and more with just one button click!
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Remote access
Worker supports access to remote machines through various ways (ssh, ftp, rsh, http and webdav).
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Low system requirements
The system requirements for Worker are pretty low, making it a great option for lower-end machines. The reason why they are pretty low is because Worker is basically made of just X11 libraries.
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Configuration GUI
Worker has a built-in configuration GUI.
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PCManFM
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Lightweight
General use, and most operations, are snappy and responsive.
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Can't extend with scripts
Unlike Nautilus and Caja, this can't extend with scripts. If script extension is added it can become a really good FM.
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Simple
PCManFM is a very lightweight and simple file manager.
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Some operations are slow
Because it tries to be as lightweight as possible and tries to use very little RAM. This can unfortunately lead to it being slow sometimes.
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Can open folder as root
PCManFM can open different folders as root, this way you don't have to use the terminal to move around files for which you need root permission.
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Right-click option choice limitation
You can only choose one option in the right-click menu instead of being able to select multiple at once.
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Auto mounts drives
PCmanFM automatically detects and mounts available drives.
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Uses a bit more RAM than thunar
Thunar uses less RAM but you pay in slower startup and stability.
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Supports "quick-directory" typing
While in a PCManFM window, typing either a "~" or a "/" will automatically start typing into the location bar, allows for tab completion, and pressing Enter goes straight to the typed directory.
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Directory trees can be confusing
Starts you off in a directory tree that is your home folder as if that is the very top. (Just use a single tree as it actually is and expand appropriately).
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More RAM is available for other processes, and the system uses less swap
Overall, the system becomes faster.
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Uses tabs instead of new windows
Tabs can practically be managed just as in a browser, so you don't end up with windows open all over your desktop. New tabs automatically start in the same location.
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Fastest starup
PCmanFM is the fastest GUI file manager to start.
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No back seat driver
Does not obstruct professional work by engrossing root warnings.
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Compact
Supports fast failure resolving in bulky configuration and log folders.
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Thunar
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Minimal dependencies
Unlike Nautilus, which requires the whole GNOME desktop, thunar just depends on some XFCE utilities & GTK.
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No integrated search option
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Supports "quick-directory" typing
While in a Thunar window, typing either a "~" or a "/" will automatically start typing into the "address-bar" and pressing enter goes straight to the typed directory.
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No usable image view mode
Setting view to "icons" doesn't satisfy. The icons are too small to see the image.
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Non-recursive find
In a thunar window, any non-directory typing will search in the current directory for the filename that you type (non-recursive, unlike Nautilus)
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Simplified action bar
The action bar on Thunar is very simple and doesn't have as many features and buttons as other file managers. It only has a back, forward, up, and home buttons as well as the folder path.
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Select by Pattern
Select multiple files in the current folder using a wildcard pattern.
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Does not integrate well into Gnome
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Custom actions are easy to set up
Use Custom Actions to add right-click options to do things like Open as Root, Open Git GUI, etc. You can filter the file types and filename patterns that the actions will show up for. To add an "Open as Root" action, go to Edit, Configure custom actions. Assign a name and a description. Set Command as "gksudo xdg-open %f" (you'll need to install gksudo since pkexec won't work). Pick an icon (I prefer "changes-allow"). Under Appearance Conditions, select Directories, Text Files, and Other Files.
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Tree sidepane missing features
When the sidepane is in Tree mode, it does not show Places (Favorites). It also doesn't collapse folders (like Windows Explorer), adding to clutter.
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Supports forward/back mouse buttons
Supports the M4 and M5 mouse buttons for forward/back, similarly to most browsers.
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Requires GNOME dependencies to support common features
Thunar relies on GVFS to support mounting disks or accessing web folders, however since GVFS is a third party GNOME library and made for the use in the GNOME environment its often incompatible to Thunar stable releases which results into crashes and other issues
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Supports renaming files in bulk
With also predefined functions as insert (date, numbering,...), search/replace, etc ...
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No double pane support
Working all in all quite good out of the box, but the windows are too big. Drag & drop is working, but useless on a one-window file manager. Even for novice users it's too weak for everyday work.
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Split View
Browse files in two directories with a dual pane view.
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Requires plugins for some basic functions of modern file managers
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Does the job
But nothing more.
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No Split View without a patch
Which can be a deal breaker.
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Keypress to search in folder
While in a Thunar window, typing a filename automatically selects the first matching file in the current folder.
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Moving files
Has serious problems moving files. It may stop abruptly with some undefined error message and the files would be gone afterwards.
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Can assign custom shortcuts to scripts in XFCE
Thunar can use the editable accelerator feature of XFCE. Run xfce4-appearance-settings in terminal, go to settings tab, check "enable editable accelerator". Now open any command in Thunar menu, hover to a command, i.e. your custom "places" or your custom command, then press any combination to assign a shortcut to it. be careful though, cause it will also remove the shortcut from other command.
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Won't write to any removable media that has been on an Apple machine
Removing dot-files that Apple puts on the media (like .fseversd) allows Thunar to write to it.
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Tabs
Use tabs to open fewer windows. New tabs automatically start in the same location. Tabs can be detached.
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Doesn't integrate well with archive manager other than Xarchiver
"Extract here" function doesn't integrate well with archive manager other than Xarchiver (e.g. Ark, GNOME Archive Manager).
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Image thumbnails sometimes wrong
There seems to be a bug where sometimes images get the wrong thumbnail, this can lead to data-loss.
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Slightly unstable
Thunar crashes some times on file moves, copy-pasting etc. The developers are working on it, but it's taken a while.
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No progress bar when copying/moving file
Either this is problem with XFCE4 or Thunar, but there's no progress bar when copying/moving file with Thunar. The only way to tell whether it finished is CPU usage.
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Double Commander
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Multi-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS X)
You can use same tool in all desktop OS environments.
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Apparently only one developer
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Source code is available (true free software)
If the developer loses interest there is at least the possibility that someone else will pick up the torch.
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Freeze after mouse double-click on directory list item
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Configurable
Lots of options allow you to configure DC the way it suits you best: Tools, Fonts, Colors, Hotkeys, Mouse, Fileviews, Plugins, Layout, Toolbars, Tabs, Icons etc.
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Much slower on Linux and Mac than on Windows
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Directory Hotlist
Save shortcuts to folders. Organize them in a treeview with submenus. Define a name and sorting for each entry.
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Source code written in Pascal language
But this does not affect users negatively. It's just programmers problem.
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Powerful tcmd-like search tool (alt+F7)
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Not developed anymore for Mac
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tcmd-like multi-rename tool (CTRL+M)
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Can't edit files on remote FTP servers
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DC uses TCmd plugin API
so you can use documentation from Total Commander for writing plugins. WCX (packer), WDX (content), WFX (file system), WLX (lister).
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Closely follows TotalCommander UX
For instance, the 'Settings | Layout' pane is quasi-identical to TCs.
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Very sophisticated
Although it is lightweight and simple to use, it can do very sophisticated tasks, like copying files from directories which have a certain extension or file size or have a certain text pattern in them. Also, it's very customizable and stable.
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It's that good, you can replace tcmd on windows too
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Source code written in (Object) PASCAL
It's all a matter of perspective. I'm not for an argument about IDE's, frameworks etc, but to me that's a big plus. I think it should be a tie, it's either a pro or a con or should that be neither a pro nor a con. It just depends on context.
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Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD
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GPL-2.0-only
Technology:
Free Pascal
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Krusader
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KDE dependencies
If you don't use KDE, you'll be forced to install quite a large amount of KDE libraries.
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Great two-pane interface
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New releases are infrequent
It can be seen in https://quickgit.kde.org/?p=krusader.git that maintenance work is done in a continous fashion, but no new releases are provided. Even though it is perhaps the more feature-rich file manager.
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Folder synchronization
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Interface can be overwhelming
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Handles most archives. There is little difference in behaviour between an archive file and a regular folder.
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Virtual file systems
Search results as example saved into virtual folder and can be accessed later. All file operations may be performed on items in search results as if they were files in single folder.
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All common operations can be done with keyboard efficiently
In addition, shortcuts can be easily renamed. Unlike Dolphin and many others.
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SFTP support
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Many operations like copying and moving files can be queued
Long running operations can be queued. There is no point in doing them in a parallel way, as speed decreases dramatically.
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Can view and edit many files
Even editing a file inside a .zip file. Has hexadecimal viewer embedded for binary files.
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Filename association and instant console availability
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Multi-rename tool
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Searching capabilities and copying/deleting/moving in background
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Custom commands can be added to the menu easily
And they can use the current folder, the selected files....
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Nemo
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Elegant
The most stylish among all FMs.
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Changing the background color or font type for customization is not practical
You have to do it with finding and editing the relevant CSS files. No buttons, menus or sliders for such customization.
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Extendable
Nemo can be extended to have additional features through third party plugins.
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Incomplete mimetypes
Like all nautilus forks it allows you to run svg-files due some incomplete mimetype coverage.
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Easily open as root
Option to open folder as root from within the right click menu.
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Depends on GNOME
Depends on gnome toolkits an libraries.
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Easily open file location in terminal
Option to open a folder in terminal, which can help executing commands such as bash.
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Has dual pane functionality
This functionality was removed in Nautilus and Dolphin at least in Ubuntu-Gnome, but Nemo kept this option, making the obvious functionality of cut, copy and paste much easier.
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Double pane and search by name capabilities
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Supports bookmarking
You can bookmark folders that you open often, this way you can easily access them from anywhere while using Nemo.
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Good networking options
Supports ftp, ssh and samba connections.
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Queues file operations
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Immenseley configurable
As with any KDE app, Dolphin, allows adding or modifying toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts.
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May be a little slow on startup
Dolphin can be a little slow on startup (depending on distro, hardware etc...). Startup time can vary from a couple of seconds to up to a minute.
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Can split views
Dolphin supports splitting the view in two navigational areas, this way you can navigate two different directories at the same time.
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Can hang on remote file systems
It doesn't cope well with remote file system nicely like sshfs or any samba, like when network is not responding/very slow. It just hangs.
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Integrated terminal
Pressing F4 with any opened folder on a mounted path opens a console within dolphin.
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"Type" column too verbose
Despite having a large enough monitor, if you keep the size of the browser window small, the "Type" column (in "Details" view mode) insists on including the complete multipart MIME string, making the column so wide that trying to limit its width makes the column useless. Sorting by "Type" renders the list into an incomprehensible mess.
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Also has a refresh option
Dolphin is without a doubt the best fully functional and easy to use and multitask with. Dolphin also has a refresh button which no other File manager has. It's great for tracking a large files transfer; that's what file managers are for - good common sense.
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Poor optimization on later versions
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Easy to extend with plugins
Dolphin follows KDE's philosophy of being extendable and configurable. It can easily be configured and customized through plugins.
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Too simple
Feels weird on KDE because it has less customizing options Konqueror and any other KDE app have.
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Auto mounts flash drives
Dolphin automatically identifies and mounts external flash drives.
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Can't perform ROOT actions
Developers set a constraint in Dolphin that deny Dolphin to run with root permissions. Hence, if you want to perform an action that require root permissions, such as rename a file in /etc/ folder, you are forced to use terminal or switch to another file manager.
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Fast at opening graphics folders
Pictures with or without previews is optional and selectable at the touch of a button.
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Does not use third party libraries
Unlike all those GTK-based file managers it does not have to rely on external written software for its functionality because KF5 is KDE SOftware and developed alongside.
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Keeps its state
It starts with last opened folders.
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Fully supports HiDPI
Supports HiDPI displays.
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Automatically centers items
In icons view mode, the space between files gets stretched so that there is never and annoying empty space at the right side of the window.
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Polo
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Freemium model
Many of the best features mentioned as pros are only available after a one-time donation of USD$10 or more. Until then you just have a fast, good-looking and otherwise forgettable file manager.
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Purposeful layout choices
Polo wants people to get the file manager they want, but it's not awash with granular layout options that take ages to understand. First select whether you want one, two, or four panes, and then select a format for each pane of either List, Icon, Tiled, or Media. That's it, you're done.
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No drag and drop
You can't drag from one view to another.
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Installs smoothly on Debian, Redhat and Arch based distributions
File managers in Linux have a nasty propensity for being closely tied to the distribution family from which they arose. Using Polo allows you to have an identical file management experience when shifting between machines from different branches of the Linux tree.
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Load loop
Slow opening with annoying 'load loop' dialog.
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Device management
Quickly mount and unmount devices from the sidebar, including support for locking and unlocking LUKS encrypted devices.
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Lengthy beta cycle
Polo has been in the beta stage of development for longer than hoped for, and while mostly stable, isn't yet ready to be promoted as a rock-solid replacement for file managers such as Dolphin and Nautilus.
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Youtube-dl integration
Just paste a YouTube URL into a folder and Polo will download the best quality format of it and save it in that folder.
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Archive browsing and creation
Browse archive files as those they were just another folder, dragging and dropping files in and out of them at will while the backend uses the appropriate tools to manage the archive file itself. Archive creation includes a rich assortment of controls over compression formats and structure.
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Image file actions
Rotate, resize, optimize, convert formats, save for the web and many other handy features all right in the context menu.
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ISO file tools
Mount ISO files to loop devices with just two clicks, or spin them up as a QEMU KVM instance, and for portability there's also an option to write them to USB flash drives using a GUI dialog.
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Advanced PDF file controls
Perform Merge and Split operations on PDF files without needing another file handler all from the context menu. Rotate and Password Protection settings are also expressed there.
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Cloud storage support
Includes its own rclone macros for adding cloud storage access to the list of browsable locations that just works, a welcome relief in the sea of hacks which provide those features elsewhere in Linux. Currently supported: Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Amazon Cloud Drive / Amazon S3, Openstack Swift (Rackspace Cloud Files, Memset Memstore, OVH), Hubic, Backblaze B2, Yandex Disk
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Views
Supports up to four panes, plus a tree-style side panel and tabs.
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Terminal emulation
Built-in terminal pop-up.
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Launchpad PPA available
Debian-based distributions can leverage the apt package management system to keep Polo updated by adding the approved PPA to their apt sources, simplifying installation as well.
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Permissions management
Features a file properties side panel to easily assess and modify permissions.
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Platforms:
Linux
License:
GNU LGPL
Cross Platform:
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Developement Status:
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SpaceFM
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Incredibly customizable
Just right click on any menu or menu option (including the context menu itself) and you'll be allowed to customize it. This lets you add support or integration for features you find missing.
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Ugly
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Minimal dependencies
It only needss gtk, udev, desktop-file-util and shared-mime-info which is available in most systems.
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Some operations are slow
Because it tries to be as lightweight as possible and tries to use very little RAM. This can unfortunately lead to it being slow sometimes.
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Highly extensible
Functionalities can be extended by user scripts as plugins. Some scripts can also be downloaded from https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm-plugins/wiki. Plugins can be exported too.
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Not for everyone
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Tab and panel support
SpaceFM supports up to 4 individually customizable panels as well as multi-tabbed file management.
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Ugly
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No back seat driver
Does not obstruct professional work by engrossing root warnings.
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Desktop management support
Can be used to set wallpaper and desktop icons with high configuration support.
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Easily open folder as root
Can open different folders as root, this way you don't have to use the terminal to move around files for which you need root permission.
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Gtk-2 and 3 support
Available in gtk2 and gtk3.
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Intuitive and extendable through plug-ins
Great UI, easy to use and configure, several plug-ins available to make everyday tasks even easier.
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Caja
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Easy to configure
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Frequently very slow to transfer multiple small files
Folders move fine, but it chokes on files, where other browsers take seconds.
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It has a reasonable set of features, out of the box
Not too much cluttered, but enough customizable.
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Mostly unconfigurable
There are not many ways to configure Caja to fit your needs. Besides what can be seen in the settings button you can't configure it further.
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Caja script extension makes it more useful
Caja script extension adds your script in script menu, then passes the file name as a parameter. This allows you to run operation which is not included in Caja.
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Sort Order / Limited Configuration Options
It ignores special characters when sorting files and folders. Underscore, tilde, bracket, ASCII characters, .... everthing not recognized in numeric/alpha sorting. Also, I found no way to remove the triangle to reveal contents of sub-folders rather than opening... but I did quit looking after several seemly unalterable functionality issues.
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Allows you to access remote or local locations
You can click the Files entry in the panel to access a specific location (remote or local), connect to a certain server (FTP, SFTP, SAMBA, etc.), access your bookmarks, open a new window, as well as to change its default functionality.
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Very slow to list thousands of files
Unusably so.
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Open or run as administrator in the right-click-menu of the mouse
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It just works
Customizable and clean, this is crushing that garbage nautilus, the overrated p.o.s. gnome destroyed.
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jFileProcessor
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Easy to run commands on selected files
Find/select files in sub-folders. run touch %f or cp %f /somefolder (this is a way to copy selected files in different levels, into 1 folder, flattening out the copy).
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Does not see attached phone files
No mtp:/ connected phone files.
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Easy rename files script
Select files. regex to match pieces of filenames, rename adding, leaving out, and reusing saved pieces.
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Groovy scripts to watch and act on files that get created/put into a folder.
So you can watch a folder and process files that come into it.
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You can make your own file associations. You can make 3 types, per suffix, per filename, per exact file.
With exact file you can create a folder of job or desktop icon names. Double-click that file to run the job since it is tied to just that specific file.
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Can make sftp connections
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You can write a script to modify your list
Your script can modify contents in the list window it is working on.
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Plugin scripts
Just put groovy scripts in menu-scripts folder and they will automatically run using currently selected files.
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Run any groovy scriptable command on a list
Run commands on your lists: grep files to find stuff, delete/copy/move files, etc.. Even copy a file to a remote host and execute it.
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Create and work with lists of filenames or any string
Search files and save to another file or a list window. Add or subtract one list from another.
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Can do count only
Just count matching search criterion.
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Good search
Search on modified time, file size, glob/regex name, folder depth; and/or on these and can do range.
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Cross-platform
Available for Linux, Windows, macOS - just needs java 7+ (written with 8).
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Insight
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Full ZFS support
It has full ZFS support including snapshots.
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BSD 3-Clause
Its written under a real open license without copyleft.
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No toolkits
It does not use freedesktop toolkits like polkit or dbus. It also does not use toolkits from other desktops like GNOME(GTK, ATK, GLIB, GIO etc.) or KDE(KF5/KIO).
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Based on Qt
As Qt is a real multi-platform toolkit that is not developed for one desktop and platform.
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FTP Synchronizer
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Overpriced
Even using single license mode no longer functions correctly. No longer sending emails as it says it does.
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Can sync multiple files across multiple websites in parallel
With FTP Synchronizer you can synchronize multiple files and multiple sites simultaneously.
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Can schedule syncs
You can schedule when you want to synchronize a particular document for a particular website.
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Very secure
Supports syncing over FTPS and SFTP.
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Does not waste time by copying every file over
When syncing a folder, FTP Synchronizer intelligently finds out which files have been changed and copies only them.
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Superfast
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CLI, default interface very simplified (supports mouse)
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Rich set of plugins
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Extremely lightweight (120 kb)
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Unique navigate-as-you-type mode
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Awesome new features being added in every release
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Minimal configuration with sane defaults
Default options and navigation is simple to grasp.
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Has a great wiki
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Sessions
Save and resume sessions.
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Supports cd-on-quit
Allows for quick switching between nnn and the terminal.
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Previews
The file manager has recently added support for preview hovered files using various methods.
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Integrates with the desktop environment and opens files in the default applications
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Reasonably well-documented
However, it requires some prior knowledge of inner workings of Linux and there are no tutorials (yet). NNN author is making up for this by actively responding to GitHub issues.
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Customizable icons and colors
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Linux, macOS, Termux, Raspberry Pi
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Spacemacs
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Preconfigured emacs distro
Spacemacs is just a well-configured Emacs distribution with community-sourced best in class plugins and layers selected to take the setup pain out of Emacs. Evil mode gives the Vim bindings and modes for fast editing, while Helm makes everything discoverable to make learning to be more productive simple and unintrusive.
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Emacs is slow
Emacs is single threaded which means that if you enable all the great features you might be used to from Vim, it will run noticeably slower which can be quite frustrating at times. There are efforts at a concurrent Emacs, but they don't seem to be going anywhere.
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VIM Keybindings with EMACS ecosystem
EMACS ecosystem and language support is best in show. The EMACS is a great IDE that was in search of a good text editor. Spacemacs makes EMACS have a good text editor.
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Platforms:
GNU/Linux, MacOS, Windows
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GPL3
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Works on all operating systems
Windows, Mac, and Linux are supported.
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No (text) file viewer
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Simple to use
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No explicit bookmark support for directories
It though remembers the visited directories and allows to search in this list in most-recently used order and by name.
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Makes finding commands *by name* easy
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Mainly for key-board-orientated users
The interface is most naturally navigated by arrows and keystrokes. The target market is software developers.
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Slick
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Has no menu bar
Hence it is not well suited for visually orientated users which find or remember commands by using a mouse and a menu. Even the fman's hero Sublime Text uses a menu bar.
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Requires email address to download
Doesn't say what it will do with this data. It is in contrast to the new laws in Europe where only necessary information is allowed to be collected. A download should not require an email address.
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Still quite buggy
So, for example, sorting only is remembered if triggered by command and not be clicking the table column header using the mouse.
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Settings can't be found by the GUI
You need to know which files to edit.
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Default dark theme
No choice between dull-dark or fresh-light.
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No portable bundle available
On Windows only a net-installer is available.
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WCM Commander
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Built-in terminal
Has a built-in terminal from which users can run any kind of command.
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File editing on virtual file systems not supported
You cannot edit files in the virtual file system.
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Virtual file system
WCM Commander has a virtual file system for smb, ftp and sftp.
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Built-in editor
WCM Commander has a built-in text editor with syntax highlighting included.
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Keyboard-focused, mouse-free editing
Emacs can be controlled entirely with the keyboard. While true, I often find the mouse and menus handy for those lesser-used commands. An aide-memoir.
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Learning curve is long
While it's better than it used to be, with most functions being possible through the menu, Emacs is still quite a bit different from your standard editor. You'll need to learn new keyboard shortcuts.
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Total customizability
Customizations can be made to a wide range of Emacs' functions through a Lisp dialect (Emacs Lisp). A robust list of existing Lisp extensions include the practical (git integration, syntax highlighting, etc) to the utilitarian (calculators, calendars) to the sublime (chess, Eliza).
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Sometimes the extensibility can distract you from your actual work
If I ever want to lose half a day, I'll start by tweaking my .spacemacs config file.
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It's also an IDE
You can debug, compile, manage files, integrate with version control systems, etc. All through the various plugins that can be installed.
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Keyboard combinations can be confusing for new users
For example, for navigation it uses the b, n, p, l keys. Which for some people may seem strange in the begging. However they can be changed easily.
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Works in terminal or as a GUI application
You can use Emacs' command line interface or graphical user interface.
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Documentation is not beginner-friendly
Although lots of good built-in documentation _exists_, I have after four years of Emacs as my primary editor not figured out how to actually make use of it, and rely completely on Google / StackOverflow for help.
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Self documenting
Emacs has extensive help support built-in as well as a tutorial accessed with C-h t.
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User interface is terrible
I was using Emacs in the early 1980's, before there were GUIs. In fairness to Emacs, its original design was conceived in that context and is rather good at some things, like flexible ability to bind commands to keyboard shortcuts. Unfortunately, it didn't keep up with the times and fails to take advantage of the entire world of GUI design that's revolutionized computer science since then. So Emacs does 5% or what an editor should do quite will, and is surprisingly under-powered and old fashioned at the other 95%. To this day, it lacks or struggles with very basic things, like interactive dialogs, toolbars, tabbed interface, file system navigation, etc., etc. The things I just mentioned, are all present in some limited and inept form, but falls far short of current standard of good user interface design. For this reason, I would not recommend Emacs to anyone who is under 50 year old, or who needs power user capabilities. For casual, unsophisticated applications by someone who grew up with green screen character based computers, it's probably OK.
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Free
Licensed under GNU GPL.
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Emacs lisp is very poorly designed
The language that's used for user customization, extensions, and for much of the basic editor functionality, is Emacs lisp, or elisp for short. I actually like lisp in general, especially Scheme, but unfortunately, elisp is one of the worst versions of lisp ever created, barely meriting being called lisp. It's very slow, impoverished in features, inconsistent, and rather inelegant in design. Elisp needed to be overhauled 20 or 30 years ago, but the Emacs developers were not willing to do the work. I believe this is one of the major reasons Emacs is so buggy, lacking in features, development is so slow, and consequently almost nobody uses it (or should use it) anymore.
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Great documentation
With 30+ years of use the Emacs documentation is very thorough. There are also a lot of tutorials and guides written by third parties.
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Very poorly maintained
It's not clear to what extent Emacs is still supported. There's still some development taking place, but so slow that it's almost an abandoned project. There are numerous bugs in Emacs, many these days associated with start up and package management. When you search the Internet for solutions, you often find many posts, sometimes going back months or even years, with no clear fix.
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Vi keybindings through Evil mode
Evil mode emulates vim behaviors within Emacs. It enables Vi users to move inside the Emacs universe.
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Hard customization
For customization, you need to learn Lisp.
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Provides org-mode
Advanced planning and publication which can start as a simple list.
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A lot of jokes in this serious software
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Enormous range of functionalities (way beyond simple "text editing")
Through its programmability, a very broad range of functionalities can be integrated in emacs, turning it even into a "single point of contact" with the underlying operating system.
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Using Emacs on a new machine without your .emacs file
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Cross-platform
Works on Linux, Windows, Macintosh, BSD, and others.
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Integrates planning in your development process
You can jump straight from your org-mode files to programming tasks - and back - and build a seamless workflow.
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Versatile
Emacs is great for everything.
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Mini buffer
You can pass complicated arguments in the mini buffer.
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Ubiquity
Fully compliant GNU-emacs is available on many platforms, and they all understand .emacs configuration files.
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Rectangular cut and paste
Emacs can select rectangularly.
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Lisp customizations
With lisp customization, any behavior of Emacs can be changed. Update with pre-release patch can be also applied without recompiling the whole Emacs.
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Visual selection and text objects with Evil
Evil is an extensible vi layer for Emacs. It provides Vim features like Visual selection and text objects.
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dabbrev-expand (Alt-/)
Dynamic word completion.
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Support multi-line editing, multiple frame, powerful paren, crazy jumping style
Review the "Emacs Rocks" video.
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Has been widely used for a long time
The first verion of Emacs was written in 1974 and GNU Emacs in 1984.
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Helm plugin adds even more power to Emacs
Powerful commands, search, and more with the Helm plugin.
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GTK+ widgets support
Since version 25 you can run GTK widgets inside Emacs buffers. One of these is the WebKitGTK+, which allows the user to run a full-featured web browser inside Emacs with JavaScript and CSS support among other things.
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Excelent tutorial to get you started
The tutorial you are presented with at startup shows you exactly what you need to get started and teaches you how to use the built-in help yourself later.
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Interactive Shells
Emacs has a number of shell variants: ansi-term, shell, and eshell.
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Emacs provides magit, the best and most complete GIT interface
Complex git history editing become a breeze with very few keystrokes. And simple ones are quickly stashed in muscle memory. Git becomes an direct extension of your brain thanks to Magit. Cherrypicking, blaming, resetting, interactive rebasing, line level commit, spinoff branches... you name it, magit already has it and has typically all those 5 to 10 git CLI commands of higher-level patterns also tide to one simple shortcut (want to amend a commit three commits away ? forgot to branch out and you've got already N commits on master ? ... etc... ).
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Gnus
Managing several large mailing lists has never been easier using Gnus. The threading commands and the various ways of scoring articles means that I never miss important messages/authors, etc. A joy to use.
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Eshell is cross platform
You can use the underlying operating system shell as a terminal emulation in an Emacs buffer. Don't like the default shell for your configuration? You can change it to your liking.
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Excellent Lisp editing support
Built-in packages make editing Lisp source code feel natural.
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Use-package and org-mode
Missing some neural package that predicts actions, maybe in the next release ...
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Platforms:
Unix-like, macOS, Windows, Cygwin
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GPL-3.0-or-later
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Nautilus (AKA Gnome Files)
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Allows you to access remote or local locations
On recent versions of GNOME, you can click the Files entry in the panel to access the a specific location (remote or local), connect to a certain server (FTP, SFTP, SAMBA, etc.), access your bookmarks, open a new window, as well as to change its default functionality.
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Mostly unconfigurable
There are not many ways to configure Nautilus to fit your needs. Besides what can be seen in the settings button you can't configure it further.
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Widely supported
The program is distributed as a single source archive, which can be configured, compiled and installed on almost any Linux flavor. There are no binary files for a specific Linux distribution, but you can install it directly from the default software channels of your operating system.
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Gradually losing its features
Unlike most software, where new features are added over time, Nautilus (along with other Gnome applications) tends to lose features, and for unclear reasons.
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Google drive integration
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Doesn't support "open as root"
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Easy to use and familiar user interface for Ubuntu users
The user interface of Files is very familiar to Ubuntu users, most probably because Canonical still uses Nautilus (an old version of it) as the default file manager for its world’s most popular free operating system, Ubuntu Linux. It split into two parts, a sidebar and the main file viewer. While you already know what the latter can do for you, the sidebar offers quick access to Places, Devices and Network locations, as well as any other bookmarks that you can add whenever you want.
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No Tree View option any more
This is a crucial feature for my daily work with a file manager and without a Tree View option a file manager seems pointless to me. The reason for dropping this feature is weird. Quoted from here: "It is the list view after all. Tree models don't work well on touch and it isn't consistent with the file chooser."
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Convenient file moving progress
Nautilus shows the progress of file move operations in the top right. This doesn't get in your way. You can keep using the window while the operation is progressing.
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Slow
Seems to be one of few file managers that can take several seconds to open.
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Fully supports DPI
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Comes with a ton of dependencies
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