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PowerArchiver
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Supports most archives
Over 30 formats are supported.
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Not free
Not free, but is worth the investment.
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Fast
Multi-core engine for performance.
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Windows, Mac
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Ark
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Fast and light
light on resources and fast
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Many KDE deps
It needs many KDE libs.
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Traditional UI
it has a traditionl User interface
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Well integrated into KDE
it works nicely on Plasma
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De-deps
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TeraCopy
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Sometimes clashes with 7 zip
From my experience, TeraCopy does not do well in conjunction with 7zips. It seems to error on some systems when you do a drag-and-drop extract.
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Faster file deletion
It deletes files much much faster than built in Windows file manager.
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Can check files for copy errors
TeraCopy can automatically check/verify the copied files for errors, by calculating their CRC or other checksum/hash value.
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Seamless shell integration 
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Skips badly copied files
TeraCopy skips badly copied files during the copying process, and then displays them at the end of the transfer "Verify" with checksum/hash, so you can see which files to re-copy. See also, OpenHashTab for Windows and DeadHash for Windows, Linux, Android.
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac
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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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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD
License:
GPL-2.0-only
Technology:
Free Pascal
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GUI
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FreeFileSync
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It supports multiple protocols
It will work with MTP, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and more.
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Does not preserve folder timestamps when copying
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It can copy locked files
It supports Volume Shadow Copy Service, meaning that it can copy files even if they are in use or otherwise locked.
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Memory hog
It runs a little slow on computers who don't have much RAM available.
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Cross-platform
It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Limited built in history
The program only remembers the latest set of folders you synced, so you have to save your syncs or create batch files.
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Portable version available
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A little intimidating for novices
If you never ran a file syncing software, this can be a little tricky to configure as your first one.
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It is quite performant
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No backup encryption
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Google Drive support
FreeFileSync provides direct access to Google Drive, no additional software is needed.
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It doesn't run on older Linux systems
It's dependencies don't allow it to run on older systems.
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Completely free
Source code releases are provided under GPLv2.
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It supports realtime sync
It can be configured to constantly monitor two folders for changes and sync them instantly when a change is detected.
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It lets you program batch scripts
You can program your own jobs for execution as a script.
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It supports case sensitive synchronization
For Unix-like systems.
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It supports long file paths
It can copy files and folders with more than 260 characters in their paths.
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It supports versioning
Versioning is keeping multiple instances of the modifications of your files.
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It can sync both local disks and network shares
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
License:
GPL-3.0-only
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Explorer++
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Open source
GPLv3.
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Has some issues with context menu integration
Some context menu integrations work, others don't. git-bash and cmder don't seem to work, for example, but kdiff3 does.
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Supports the standard Send To menu
It supports the standard Send To menu which helps to install extentions which rely on the Windows API only.
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Supports bookmarks
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Tab design
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Microsoft Windows
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Far Manager
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Keyboard-oriented
Far Manager's interface encourages keyboard operation - all actions are easily accessible with keyboard shortcuts, you can quickly record macros for any repeatable action, there are no screen redraws if it is not necessary and that makes everything faster.
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Blocking operations
Operations such as copy, move, delete, etc are blocking, and you have to wait for them to complete before you can continue. Though you can cancel the operation with the escape key.
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Open source
Released under BSD license.
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Only for Windows
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Two-panel interface
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Always uses monospace font
Which makes long file names look extremely wide
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Many plugins
There are may of them, and you can write them in any languages, including Python.
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Does not support scrolling with mouse
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Editor with syntax highlighting
Every Far feature is also true for its editor. You can setup an external editor if you like, but the included editor works really well and features syntax highlighting.
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Text-based interface
Far Manager does not use a GUI like most windows applications nowadays. This may prove difficult to use for people who are not familiar with text-based user interfaces.
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Easily recorded macros
Hit "Ctrl-." and start recording your boring sequence. Hit "Ctrl-." again to assign it a key. You can use Lua if you need more advanced macros.
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Folder shortcuts not available in Alt+F1/F2 menus
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Numeric sorting option
E.g. readme-9.txt before readme-10.txt
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Extremely fast
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Offline context help
Just press F1 when you need it. No internet connection or browser is required.
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Themeable
Fully themeable, allowing you to change the colors of every part of the interface.
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Scrippting support via LUA
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Platforms:
Windows
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Both
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Q-Dir (the Quad Explorer)
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Highly manageable multiple windows
Every window can be separately customized. You can choose between different views from 1 to 4 windows, and every window can have multiple tabs!
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Sometimes may have bugs
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You can view 4 windows simultaneously
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Needs modern UI design
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You can use tabs in every window
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No search
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Portable
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Does not work with Quicklook
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Free
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Does not use a lot of RAM
Q-dir with 4 windows and with 4 tabs in every window uses only 39mb of RAM on Win10x64.
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Fast and stable
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Very customizable
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Q-Dir allows you to save folder combinations as a favourite to open any time
Up to 64 folder combinations can be saved in a favorite, since each of the four windows is equipped with tabs (ie 4 x 16 tabs 4 x Tree View plus 4 x Address Bar).
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Total Commander
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Plugins
Supports plugins for compression, file system, and file types.
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Cannot display background colors for file names
While it can display different colors (even based on filters) for the text color of those file names, but not for the background color.
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Can replace a lot of utility tools
There are a lot of built-in utility tools and plug-ins. There's multi-file renamer, verify file checksum to ensure download content integrity, sync directory tool, etc.
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Very slow on loading network shares
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Life-time license
Once purchased you can use it as long as you like and never have to pay again.
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Proprietary
Total Commander offers a free 30-day trial, after which the cost of the program is $44.
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Layout increases productivity
The dual-pane layout makes normal file operations (like move & copy) easy.
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Classic Interface
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Useful multiple advanced options
Show hidden files, show differences between directories, FTP connections, coding and decoding (MIME, l).
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Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration
Need to spend a lot of time for custom configuration, many features of the steps are very cumbersome to reduce operating speed.
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Very customizable
Total Commander is extremely flexible, with plenty of customizable options such as changing the color scheme, customizing menus, and editing shortcuts.
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Works even when Windows is very unstable
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Productive
Even if you have not learned the keys from DOS NortonCommander, learning them now will make you more productive when dealing with files.
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Powerful file search
The file search has many features, like using regular expressions to find the file names or even inside the content of the files. It can filter by file size, date and others, or even find duplicate files.
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Compare files and show differences
Can compare and show text file differences (diff) line-by-line, even character-by-character. Very useful for programmers. Can compare binary files, telling if files have the same content or not.
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Batch-rename files and folders
Sometimes you want to rename a bunch of files for some reason. Eg: file1-useless info blah blah.mp8 file2-useless info blah blah.mp8 file3-useless info blah blah.mp8 file4-useless info blah blah.mp8 file5-useless info blah blah.mp8 At once you can remove the "-useless info blah blah" in all file names. Or you could change the "file" to "my_super_file" to all at once. The possibilities are endless.
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Saves time
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Cloud plugin
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Customizable tabs
Allows renaming tabs and setting maximum tab text length, which is very convenient. You can also lock tabs in two modes: a) change dir not allowed and b) change dir allowed (but it would return to the original path once you browse another tab). It doesn't allow assigning different colors to each tab, though.
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On copy/move it can both avoid overwrite the destination file AND losing the copied file at the same time
Sometimes you need to copy/move a bunch of files to a folder that already has files. During the copy when Total Commander encounter files in the destination folder that has the same name of the copied files, it allows you to choose auto-rename the copied files or the destination files. It's beautiful.
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Convenient
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Free
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Easy for language translation
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Forget about the mouse
The total commander is convenient to use both with the mouse and exclusively using the keyboard. But using only the keyboard gives it a big increase in the speed of work because you do not aim at your mouse. You need some time to get used to it, but it's really worth it.
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FreeCommander
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2 Pane Layout
Makes normal file operations (like move & copy) easy.
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It's easy to delete important stuff by accident
When you want to delete something, it will often highlight both a file and its folder. The whole folder is then removed if you don't de-select the folder manually.
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Quick Navigation
Commonly used folders can be added and accessed using the favorites list -- in addition, physical and network drives can be switched to with a single click.
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Only the 32-bit version is free
You have to make a donation to be able to download the 64-bit version.
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Very powerful Multirename tool
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Cluttered and dated UI
The user interface has an outdated look, with a lot of button and menu options that can be overwhelming.
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Has a portable version
Because it's portable, you can easily move the folder with all your files to other devices.
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Unable to replace default file explorer
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Powerful search feature
FreeCommander provides a search functionality that allows you to filter out results.
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Buggy
Good facilities overall, but there's a bug that makes menus freeze and get stuck on the page.
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Very powerful set of file copying options
FreeCommander has a very powerful set of file copying options.
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Very usable and reliable Sync tool
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Shows folder file size
In Details mode you can turn on Folder Data file size.
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Keyboard shortcuts
Has a good set of keyboard shortcuts enabled by default
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Interface highly customizable, native Dark Mode, stable, very accessible primary functionality, very frequent updates
Simple 1-click buttons to toggle views, enable or disable visual filter, etc. Very simple instant filtering. The folder syncing is as good as "GoodSync".
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Excellent file manager with lots of hotkeys
Also file search, filter and multi file rename functionalities.
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Platforms:
Windows
License:
Freeware
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Yes
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Midnight Commander
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Intuitive interface
Midnight commander uses the full screen of the terminal in a very efficient way. It displays two panels for files horizontally. On the bottom it has the most useful commands with their corresponding key attached. All of this makes for a very intuitive interface both for beginners and experienced users.
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File viewer: searching can be quite cumbersome
Especially searching next or previous.
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Can be run in the terminal 
Being a terminal application means that it's suited for people who spend most of their time on the terminal because they don't have to switch windows in order to open their file manager. It also means that they can use it both locally and remotely.
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No directory bookmarks
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Easy to use
Midnight commander is easy and intuitive to use. The most common commands are displayed in the bottom (move, copy, paste, delete, edit, view, make directory). Files can be selected with the arrow keys which move the cursor through them. The Enter key goes down in a directory. To move the focus between two panels the tab key is used.
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No easy way to change colors matching certain files
There probably is a possibility, but it is not easy.
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Lightweight
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Quirky and hard to remember shortcuts
E.g. when trying to take the current directory's path to the command line.
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Stable
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Lacks drag and drop feature
With midnight commander you cannot drag and drop files to move them around. Instead, you have to do the necessary actions in order to move files around (cut and paste or copy and delete).
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Often available in default repository
and hence easy to install by usually package manager.
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Can only be run in the terminal
MC lacks a standalone GUI option.
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Lynx-like motion
Cursor+left to go to parent directory, cursor+right to go into child directory.
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Well-presented
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
Technology:
C
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Multi Commander
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Slow Right Click Response
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Separate tree for each panel
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Settings are a bit complicated
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Both 32 bit and 64 bit versions available
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Tree cannot be displayed on the right side
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Free
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File coloring based on filters
Including optional background coloring. Limitation of this pro: text and background color cannot be taken from 2 different filters and thus combined but on the positive side: it provides coloring profiles, which can be switched (supposedly easily).
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Full of features
A hundred different options: multi-rename, convert line break of files (CR, LF, CRLF), double panel, folder tree, tabbed interface, colourized tabs, etc.
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Portable version available
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Heavily customizable
Besides many customizable on-board options and features, one can also write his/her own scripts and even full plug-ins.
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Written in C++
The program launches fast.
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Support for FTP, Registry, and OneDrive
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Powerful scripting system
You can easily write powerful scripts even without knowledge of programming.
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Platforms:
Windows
32 or 64 bit:
both
Windows Requirements:
Windows 10 / 8.x / 7 / Vista / 2003 / XP / Server 2012 (R2) / Server 2008 (R2)
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Clover
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Adds Chrome-esque tabs to Windows Explorer 
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Screen scaling issues with 4K displays
It's not recommended to be used on computers with a 4K display as it will cause many scaling problems even in other applications.
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Lots of themes from Chrome 
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Ads
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Bugs and no support
While it's overall performance is good, the tool overrides Windows Explorer by force which can result in bugs, crashes and screen freezes that can only be solved by stopping the task. Sometimes it crashes the explorer all together which can leave you without access to the windows toolbar.
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VirusTotal finds adware and possible viruses
More than 40 online antivirus/anti malware scanners reports issues. Do try it your self if you think this is a competitor trying to give Clover a bad rep. I used it before, but now I've abandoned it. Especially because the installation etc. are in Chinese so you don-t stand a chance to know what you're doing.
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Installing and uninstalling is in Chinese
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Win 10 Quick access bar break
It breaks the win 10 quick access bar, options stop working.
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XZ Utils
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No internal checksumming
Should not be used for archiving.
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Many options
There are many options to choose.
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Complex
It needs some trial and error to find the best compression algorithm for your filetype.
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Platforms:
Windows, Linux, Unix, Mac etc.
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HaoZip
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Discontinued
Latest release was version 3.0 in July 2012.
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Has a built in image viewer
As in jpeg photos etc..
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Potentially dangerous
alternativeto.com warns of possible virus in hao.zip, and that firefox & google chrome have reported the website serving haozip as dangerous.
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Advanced features
Hao Zip offers the largest feature set and capabilities for a free archiver/ unarchiver.
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Xarchiver
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Can show a file list without loading the whole archive
For 7zip-files (perhaps other types too) while File Roller cannot do this.
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Segfaults when creating large archives
When creating large archives it crashes and doesn't show you any helpful message (unless you started it from the terminal you will get something like "[1] 14858 segmentation fault (core dumped) xarchiver").
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Doesn't show a progress UI while it's creating an archive
You have to "guess" when it's done.
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Not in active development
Xarchiver has only one maintainer and it seems he's not working on it actively.
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