When comparing WCM Commander vs Deepin File Manager, the Slant community recommends Deepin File Manager for most people. In the question“What are the best file managers for UNIX-like systems?” Deepin File Manager is ranked 14th while WCM Commander is ranked 27th.
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Pros
Pro Built-in terminal
Has a built-in terminal from which users can run any kind of command.
Pro Virtual file system
WCM Commander has a virtual file system for smb, ftp and sftp.
Pro Built-in editor
WCM Commander has a built-in text editor with syntax highlighting included.
Pro Send files and folders to external drives just from the right click menu
Pro Supports natural sorting of file names
The only other file manager that supports this is Dolphin.
Pro Beautiful UI
Pro Written in Qt
Pro Responsive
Pro Has dark theme support
Cons
Con File editing on virtual file systems not supported
You cannot edit files in the virtual file system.
Con Distro-specific
Kind of in between nautilus and pcmanfm.
Con Extensions not supported
Currently it does not support script extensions. It would be more useful having plugin to integrate with Dropbox and git.
Con Lack of compact view mode
No compact view with small icons, labels to the right, and multiple dynamically sized columns. This is a standard UI idiom. What is their rationale to not support it?