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Pros
Pro Free and open source
Pro Optimized with fast loading speed
Compare to other file explorer I have used its have really fast loading speed.
Pro Tab system
Pro Active development
Active community development as of 2021.
Pro Bookmark support
Pro Built-in file viewer
Which even supports a lot of encodings.
Pro Open source
GPL v3.
Pro Intuitive usable
All commands use the well-known shortcuts.
Pro Lynx-like motion
Cursor left: parent directory, cursor right: go into directory/zip.
Pro White and dark theme
Cons
Con Useless for searching
Often completely misses loads of files that you know are there.
Con Limited search functionality
No file content search.
Con Folder view settings does not save individually
want to just set download folder item to group by date? nope! every folder applies this view settings.
Con Abandoned
Seemingly abandoned. Hasn't been updated in a few years.
Con Crashes semi frequently
Crashes quite a bit. Sometimes random sometimes during network folder access. Loses current state and reverts to the state of the last graceful exit.
Con Blocking file operations
E.g. while moving a large directory structure, you can't do anything else.
Con Can't unpack 7zip files
