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I always liked OS/2’s presentation manager.
Ho hum.
when you haven’t used some of the programs mentioned, such as the Amiga Directory Opus. From among the ones I know (Windows Explorer and all that run run under Linux), Windows Explorer is the most useful one. Although there’ll be other experiences, on all the machines _I_ work with, Windows Explorer pops up almost instantly, whereas its Linux pendants take their fair share of loading time. That simple circumstance makes it much less comfortable to work with a file manager under Linux. By the time you’ve clicked your way through to a directory, you could’ve just popped up an xterm and done the whole task. Again, this is my _personal_ experience. Anybody who can objectively comment on the difference between MacOS’s Finder and Windows Explorer?
…i need a “light” filemanager.
for this reason i chose ROX and i’m quite happy with it.
Shouldn’t this poll make a distinction between the MacOS 9 spatial Finder and the MacOS X non-spatial Finder as John Siracusa does at great length in this Ars article: http://arstechnica.com/paedia/f/finder/finder-1.html
Also, what about other important options like the RiscOS file manager which has the most integrated application Save dialog, or the famous NeXT File Viewer, the precursor of the MacOS X three panel view?
> when you haven’t used some of the programs mentioned, such as the Amiga Directory Opus
It is now ported to Windows, no need to have an Amiga for it:
http://www.gpsoft.com.au/
> Anybody who can objectively comment on the difference between MacOS’s Finder and Windows Explorer?
I use both daily. I like some of their features and I dislike some others. It would take a whole page to explain though…
>Shouldn’t this poll make a distinction between the MacOS 9 spatial Finder and the MacOS X
No, because we will be filled up with choices and polls shouldn’t take a whole vertical page. Other choices are also “teamed up”, like the Norton Commander and clones, and Xtree and clones and BeOS Tracker and derivatives.
> what about other important options like the RiscOS file manager, or the famous NeXT File Viewer, the precursor of the MacOS X three panel view?
No one uses these anymore, and people wouldn’t know about them, so the voting results would not be ideal. Eveb for the DirOpus, which is way more popular than the ones you mentioned we had a comment about saying “what’s that?”. And also, see above, too many choices are not good. These options you mention here are all good for the “Other” option.
So please don’t ask for other options, I have it thought out and layed out the way I believe it is the best for all.
>…i need a “light” filemanager.
>for this reason i chose ROX and i’m quite happy with it.
ROX Rocks 😉
If anyone wants .debs for it, i can point them in the right direction.
Total Commander is the best of all file managers for windows i have ever used.
http://www.ghisler.com
On Windows: Total Commander
On Linux: Konqueror
Konqueror is best
I personally like mc (Midnight Commander). However most the time is just plain CLI…
I’ve never seen a faster Filer
http://rox.sourceforge.net/rox_filer.html
Aiya… Should I have voted that one… Can I revote?
You forgot tcsh.
;^)
mc
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Shouldnt a file manager be a file manager not a web browser, media centre, dishwasher, shirt ironer? Konq being a case in point. Love it if it was a file manager only, nautilus has this covered.
I agree. I don’t like the file manager to be as inconsistent, menu-bloated and too confusing as Konqueror is. Konqueror would be great if it would only do no more than it really should and if someone would clean up its menu interface.
>shirt ironer
I hate ironing. I would actually support Konqueror if it could do that for me.
I used to use DirOpus all the time on the Amiga, v4 in particular (never did get v5 set up to my liking…) But these days I use Windows and hence the Explorer shell (and to the guy that was comparing load speeds, WinExp loads instantly, cause its already loaded… which does give it an advantage
)
If I had to vote, I’d say the Windows version of DirOpus, which I’ve been playing about with a bit… Mind you, I don’t have it configured to my liking either yet…
To tell the truth, I got stuck on MS File Manager years ago, and I still use it today. ’twas my first graphical file manager
(that and it’s DOS counterpart dosshell) I know it’s outdated and rather restrictive, but there’s a few decent expansions for it. And it brings back nice memories of when I was first playing with & learning about computers.
…gets far too often in the way. Also its configuration options for file metadata is absymal (eg. good luck sorting movies on length, or music on album name.) I love konq the web browser but it is behind each and every file manager in the poll that I have used.
Yet, it is leading. I don’t think one can explain this on basis of different expectations.
By no stretch of the imagination could any shell/command interpreter be a file manager. Ls+cp+mv+rm+ln… etc. is your file manager.
XFCE’s XFTree. Very fast and functional.
-3BSD
XFM Would have to be the best that I have used, certainly out of the linux distributions- much better than konqueror or nautilus.
The best feature is integrated networking:
1. Browse windows and NFS shares easily
2. Right click on a folder and enable sharing via samba etc at the click of a button
3. Auto extraction of archived files
4. Auto ripping into ogg or mp3 format.
5. Easy symbolic linking.
6. Easily change appearance- tree, details, number of panes etc.
7. Very similar in appearance to windows explorer which makes it intuitive for non-linux users.
8. Auto mounting of zip/cdrom/usb hard drives etc under removable devices.
Read about XFM here: http://www.consultingtimes.com/articles/xandros/filemanager/fileman…
“Shouldnt a file manager be a file manager not a web browser, media centre, dishwasher, shirt ironer? Konq being a case in point. Love it if it was a file manager only, nautilus has this covered.”
It is a shell, like a Windows shell. As long as you use it for file managing only, it’s just a filemanager. HTML engine, and other components are embedded only when you use them. So, if you don’t look a web page with konquerer it’s no web browser at all. Everything is loaded on demand. So it’s just what you want it to be.
I use zsh everyday, I don’t know why.. I just find, go to place, copy, move, rename and anything in the zsh. I find it’s much quick and easier than the GUI file mananger. When, I use GUI file manager, I keep search/surf for a folder/file for a while and wasted my time.
It’s the first one in Linux I actually used. Konq was fun, and I always used its built in CD ripper, but I never used it for file management. Too slow, too complicated. I actually use Nautilus sometimes for file management.
I used Explorer too, but that’s because there was no alternative.
Konqueror of course. You can’t find a more feature rich file-manager. Don’t want to bother with opening a browser? Just type in the web address… And I didn’t mention the various services. (Audio CD browsing with dnd ripping and encoding, samba network browsing, etc..) Konqueror is what integration and consistency is about: browsing the web, your filesystem, ftps, your local network, etc. from the same interface.
For GUI i prefer emelFM and for the CLI i am fond of mc (midnight commander, when properly configured.
>browsing the web, your filesystem, ftps, your local network, etc. from the same interface.
MacOSX Finder does the same, but in a way less crammed and bloated interface than Konqueror’s. Konqueror is powerful, but its menu layout is beyond terrible.
mc is the best, fastest and most functional filer
🙂
Always forgetting about the NeXT people, eh?
Typical, their software always excels above the rest
For the XTree & its clones friends, this web site has all the information you might need about this great and oldie file manager: http://www.xtreefanpage.org/
I don’t really like any file manager on any computer or OS. But my favourite was Sid on the Amiga, because of its simplicity and power. Oh, and being able to click “size” and it listing the size of all the folders in a directory. Perhaps the unix ones do that?
Does SpaceMonger on Windows count? I like that.
>Oh, and being able to click “size” and it listing the size of all the folders in a directory.
BeOS Tracker does that too.
I’ve always used Windows Explorer since it’s the file manager I started with and never missed anything. Not that there aren’t any other good things out there, but since I don’t have them, I don’t miss them. It’s also that winexp starts up that fast and easy to start, I always use [win]+[e] and voila, there it is.
Although there are some things I really hate about it, DON’T ever try to open ftp sites through winexp, if the ftp server isn’t responding, whole winexp blocks, this is also the case with internet explorer. Also when I try to delete a file windows is probably indexing or something (it has a fileread open on it or something) I can’t delete the file. It will take lots of seconds to finally say that it can’t delete it, it probably does this because it waits for windows to remove the fileread on it, but still, it takes too long. Not to remember that I sometimes can’t remove a file directly from the computer, but deleting it to the trashcan and then emptying the trashcan works immediately.
But besides that, no other comments.
I voted “Other” meaning “MacOS 9 Finder”
OSX’s Finder is a completely different beast than OS9’s.
You have to love OS9 labels, one of the most productivity-boosting features ever
The “self updating” aliases (move the target, and the alias “knows” where you moved it) are lovely.
The tabs that appear when you drag a window to the side of the screen are pure genius.
I hope OSX catches up with that level of finesse and performance, some day
I have not seen a match for Dopus 4xx. on any other platform.
Dopus 4.xx runs on my Pegasos.
The response time is 0,09 sec to startup Dopus.
But any filemanger is always the best in the eye of the beholder.
FAR Manager http://www.rarsoft.com/ rocks!!!
It has a text-based user interface under windows (like norton commander used to have under DOS). Is ultra-fast and very nicely integrated with win32. And it has one feature that all GUI managers lack: spawned programs actually run in manager’s window so you can examine their output (same sa NC/Dos Navigator).
And it has a lot of plugins for everything (registry, network, ftp, scp, services, processes, mail, news, print manager, etc.)
Perfect if you’re using it through some telnet server.
Rox filer rocks. On MS-windows I use 2xExplorer, which is a sort of Norton Commander clone.
Sorry to be so harsh, but I think it’s crazy to make ONE choice for Mac OS/Mac OS X Finder. These are two absolutely different applications.
As well could you put in “Linux file managers” or “Windows 3.1 file manager/Windows XP Explorer”. I really loved the Mac OS 9 Finder and I have never seen anything that comes close.
The Mac OS X Finder tries to be a lot more like the Windows Explorer and I think it’s not as good.
RISC OS filer DEFINITELY. What more could you want than folder windows that resize themselves according to the number of files they contain? And smart resizing (it doesn’t let you fill the screen with empty folder window if you’ve only got one icon, for example).
No file manager I used (I used to work under Windows, Linux, Mac, …) ever was as easy to configure/customize by the user and with the power and simplicity of use as Amiga Dopus was (I mean the 4.x versions more than the 5.x a little to bloated (in my opinion))…
Windows Explorer is the most limited/stupid one I currently have to use (turbo navigator is a nice try to have something more useful under Window), Konqueror is very nice but still lacks in some more simplicity/easy configurability for the user (Yes, linux usually is for more skilled users…)
Maybe it’s not very fair to compare Dopus with the other ones, ’cause noone of them can rely on the power of particular features like AREXX scripting, advanced datatyping, universal periferal addressing and assignment, and full contemporary access to all desktop and commandline features, multiple action configurability, and so on, that make this basically very simple and little program so usefull…
The only thing missing is no contestual pop-up menues for the highlighted files (considering the program is more than 10 years old and still the best in many features, this should be forgiven:)
konqueror, nautilus, mc whatever.
as long as I have a CLI to go along with it.
when you have to do *something* to 24,000 files, I DON’T WANT TO DRAG AND DROP ANYTHING!!!!
on the other hand, if i need to copy a small directory from point a, to point b…a gui works fine.
IMO DOpus 4.x, DOpus Magellan and the Windows versions are all quite different from eachother. For file manager specificly I would prefer the DOpus4 approach, but a lot of the features provided by Magellan versions I would like to see implemented in future versions of AmigaOS. (Luckily Hyperion bought a license from GPSoft to realize this!)
On Windows, I use the Explorer, though at work (on NT), I find it hangs the machine sometimes while it searches my second HD which is *incredibly* annoying.
For those who think Linux FM’s are naturally slow, try XWC (X-Wing Commander – http://users.netwit.net.au/~pursang/Lofat_Screenshots.html for screenshots) though it isn’t developed anymore (shame!). It’s a clone of the Windows Explorer, and is very fast (slightly more than Explorer is on Windows), so for those who want a fast Linux file manager, try this one. I found it slightly faster than the Rox filer too.
I tried to Rox filer, but couldn’t be bother to learn how to use it, though I am sure it is quite powerful.
I haven’t had the chance to use the NeXT FM, but I have seen screenshots – it looks quite interesting. Does anyone know if there is a version for WindowMaker?
Who is second best after Dopus/Dopus_Magellan:-)
The successor of XWC is XFE
http://www.roland65.ovh.org/xfe/xfe/html
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xfe
On the Amiga, it was Directory Opus all the way. For the kind of user I was back then, it was a great tool. It did the basic things well, but also allowed a great deal of user customization.
These days, it’s zsh all the way, more or less. I do have a ROX window up on one of my virtual desktops at all time, but it’s not exactly my most used app.
Btw, “gentoo” (no, not the distro) is basically a DOpus clone (or atleast heavily inspired by it) for unix systems. I was exhilarated when I found out there was a such a thing available, but after trying it I realized that that kind of tool just doesn’t suit my way of working anymore, even though the program itself seemed nice enough. Fans of the original DOpus might want to take a look at it.
vifm for vi lovers at http://vifm.sf.net .
Mine is definately Konqueror just because its so darn cute
Sorry te correct url is:
http://www.roland65.ovh.org/xfe/xfe.html
I really like BeOS’ Tracker, the way it manages attributes/metadata is great (you can choose wich columns you want to see, sort by any of them, and so on). But I’m missing a tree folder view, I’m used to it since Windows 3.1’s File Manager.
And in Zeta we will get SVG icons 🙂
Well i must say since I’ve been using linux 99% of the time this year, I am quite happy just using a console for all my file managment tasks. I did actually install nautalis to browse SMB shares once but other than that console has been fine.
I voted for tracker though, because i did use it under BeOS and it was incredibly usefull, expecially with querys.
From what i have seen of MacOS X’s finder I like it. Their tree view seems nice and intuitive and less of a hassle to browse than the explorer way of doing things.
I’ve never been a big fan of explorer, its always just seemed to get in the way and stop work being done.
With a dark past as a DOS (MS/PC/DR) user I would say StupenDos was my prefered filemanager and all this modern GUI stuff doesn’t come close :-). Some used nc or Pc-tools but I prefered SD. I also found with early versions of LapLink you had a very capable filemanger.
overall: konq (can’t beat it’s features)
windows: norton commander
linux: konq
macos: the old macos-classic finder
i think the best one ever is the xandros file manager!
it combines the strenght of linux, integrated zip, ftp, preview-functions with a nice look, a fantastic handeling of network-neighbourhoods and network-sharing via NFS and SMB
TK Desk
ROX Filer
And in console mode, vshnu.
Just like Mike Hearn, Nautilus is the first graphical filemanager I actually use.
I think this is because the console is just too damn good and I don’t quite see the reason to use a slow filemanager instead if it’s ugly and inconvenient.
Nautilus is beautiful and has a very relaxing, convenient UI. If I just want to put a screenshot on my FTP server or move a few music files around, then this is as cool as it can get.
I’ll admit that Nautilus is not the fastest or most powerful file manager around though. It’s no shell replacement and can’t even brew tea.
best filemanagers for me..
on AmigaOS: DirectoryOpus
on BeOS: Tracker
on Linux: MidnightCommander
on Windows: Total Commander
DOS: pfm.com
Unix: pfm ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/p-f-m )
i never need more
Rox is the first, and perhaps only fm, which i can say
that filemanagement was easier for me then a shell.
Konqueror is basicly a lowest common denominator nonspecialized complicated interface to things
it ought not to do. And its too slow.
PathFinder an alternative file systen for OSX. Its powerful, simple and elegant.
This poll is an interesting one to me. As others have already mentioned, for the bottom line I use a shell near exclusively, but I’m not a stranger to the GUI tools. In certain respects I find all of Explorer, Konqueror, Nautilus and Endeavour2 to have their uses and to me I’ve seen each demonstrate advantages which I’ll attempt to summarise.
Konqueror is an application I met with initial distaste, but through use it’s something that has grown on me. Complaints about integrated everything aren’t necessarily out of place – it also reminded me too much of explorer in the 95/98 era and in all the bad respects. Just a few days ago I was web browsing using it with ‘file sessions’ open in background tabs and it crashed taking them all with it. That is the major bad side of having the kitchen sink integrated, but if it weren’t for that integration I’d not have used Konqueror at that time anyway. So it has good pluses due to its feature set, and I rate it highly, even if it does benefit from non-traditional file manager features.
Nautilus is someting I’ve not had a problem with. It works like I’d expect a file manager to, and for me that wins points. I find it works nicely by default.
Endeavour2 – It’s not very pretty but it’s easier and makes more sense to install on systems without Gnome/KDE than the above two. Sometimes that is an issue.
I’ve left Explorer to last for a reason. It’s the only one, where forced I’d rely on. Granted, on its platform you’re pretty much forced to, but none of the other file managers (yet) see me do anything heavy in terms of organising files, I only use them when I’m in ‘slouch mode’; Windows you use Explorer all the time. Compared to Konqueror specifically but in general all the above on actual file management its features are slim, but it _is_ nevertheless convenient to use, and that’s not something I’d not necessarily say for the other managers I’ve used much of.
So.. a favourite? For me there is not a clear choice. Konqueror/Nautilus don’t make sense to use outside of their home environment to me, and of course Explorer that isn’t even an option, all issues which weigh against them, and perhaps tip the balance and even up with endeavour. The others on the poll (and in previous comments) I’ve not used, or not used enough to have an opinion.
The best FM of them all isn’t listed :/
emelfm owns other FM’s easily. It’s easy to configure, fast, leightwight & extremely ugly. I love it
Xandros File Manager
If you don’t think so, you don’t know about it…
I do internet application programming, and Konqueror is all I could ever dream of:
1. Browse to your local work directory;
2. Hit ctrl-shift-l to split your window;
3. Enter the SSH – adress of your server (fish://[email protected]);
4. Upload your modified files to the server via SSH;
5. Hit ctrl-shift-n to spawn a new tab;
6. Enter the URL of your server to view your changes;
— optional —
7. Hit ctrl-shift-n again;
8. Insert an audio CD and enter audiocd:/;
9. Browse to the OGG (or mp3, or wave) directory;
10 Select desired files and hit ctrl-c;
11. Go to any directory (ftp, smb, fish, file, whatever) and hit ctrl-v;
12. Look at Konqueror do the ripping, encoding and uploading to whereever you want;
It also allows you to browse .zip, .rar, .tgz, tbz2, tar, .iso etc. archives, audio -/ video – cd’s, your handy, edonkey, it supports mrml, telnet, webdav, nntp etc. protocols, is scriptable, is also a help browser for KHelp, man and info pages, and it supports shortcuts like gg: searches with google, php: searches the php command reference, sf: searches sourceforge etc.
Nautilus, windows explorer, konqueror, finder etc… all have their strengths … but when it comes down to day 2 day use I prefer to use a good old command prompt .. (bash, DOS prompt, etc).. No GUI i’ve ever seen can compare with the speed of that!
I had to choose between Finder and Konqueror. I choose Konqueror because
1) Very flexible. I can do pretty much anything I can think of.
2) Lots of features I actually use. Finder is rather low on that…
3) Faster file preview than Finder on OS X. And Finder on OS 9 and below, it doesn’t have file preview…
Of course, Finder (especially prior to OS X, sorry to say) is very easy and intuitive, in comparison with Konqueror. But if I was looking for ease of use, I would be using a Etch-A-Scetch…
Did I mention it takes about one second to load… 😉
(KDE 3.1.2, prelinked, 1GB RAM, U160 SCSI HDD’s)
Konqueror is best:)
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Mc and Konqueror on Linux,
FAR and Explorer on Windows.
Definately have to vote for DirectoryOpus on the amiga (upto v4 where it is a standalone 2-pane filemanger. Not v5 onwards where it became a full desktop replacement “shell”).
Simple, lighting fast but deceptively powerful too. One thing I’ve never understood about Windows Explorer is how looooooong it takes to read and display a large directory of files. Opus is almost instant, and thats operating with a very slow processor (equivalent to 486 @ 50Mhz!) and very old IDE harddrive, (although this speed is in some way due to the filesystem and OS advantages).
Eugenia,
I chose Konqueror, but I probably do atleast (if not more) file management from a CLI. I don’t think I’m alone as I ve seen a number of posts commenting on zsh and tcsh (I still primarily use bash). Maybe if you do a similar poll at some point in the future you could make terminal an option.
To tell the truth, I got stuck on MS File Manager years ago, and I still use it today. ’twas my first graphical file manager
(that and it’s DOS counterpart dosshell) I know it’s outdated and rather restrictive, but there’s a few decent expansions for it.
Ever find a version that handled long file names? That was the main thing that eventually forced me to move to Win Explorer back in my Windows days.
Currently, my favourite is BeOS’ Tracker. The tight integration with the more advanced features of the BFS, the drilldown menu, the ability to move a file that’s still being written to without screwing anything up, the “Select” applet, etc. Simple on the surface, but with a fair bit of power for those willing to dig a little deeper – just the way I like software.
Of the FMs mentioned, and of the ones I’ve used, I’d have to say that Win Explorer is the one I like the least. No “resize window to fit folder contents” option. No “open the folder I’ve double-clicked on and close the parent folder” – it’s either single window browse or clutter your desktop with folder windows. Oh, and we can’t forget the lovely habbit Explorer has in XP – namely, automatically turning off the status bar for you.
Hmmm… I don’t agree with the opinion that Konq. is bloated – its just like a common interface (similarly to a shell) to various tasks. I do agree, however, that the menu is a bit bloated. I is very hard to arrive at a good solution for everyone. For instance, I didn’t use the Open Terminal Here option for half a year, but now I can’t live without it. And as I went through the right click menu in filemanager, I can’t think of too many things that should be removed. Basically, there are 3-4 options that can go or be replaced. The the bzip/zip/tar this directory is good (by one click you can create an archive) – but it should be made into one option: create archive. Create data CD with K3b should be added to this. It should not call Ark either, for the good thing about including it in the menu is the simplicity. It would be nice it would call a small menu with the options: tar, bzip, zip, tar+bzip and if unace and unrar is present, with those as well.
The only other menu item that should be made optional (and off by default) is Cervisia. All in all, I could live with the removal of these 4 items, but I’m happy that all of the rest are there. Besides, its not as confusing as you suggests, or rather, its not something that one cannot get used to after a week or so. But should any of the other features be missing when needed later, that would create more inconvenience than the presence of the +4 menu items does now.
Count another for the great work done by the fine folks at Xandros.
I’m surprised it hasn’t been mentioned. Gentoo (this was before the Linux distribution) is a “clone of DOpus with extra features” Now, I’ve never used an Amiga, but this is great. It gives you an MC-like view. The best thing is, you get about 20 buttons on the bottom of your window that you can configure to be any command you want–tar, bz2, md5sum, whatever you like. It also loads faster than Explorer on the same hardware.
I don’t think there are any. They are all still fairly unusable for the average joe. File managers are one part of computing that seriously needs to progress.
In windows i really like totalcommander (previously known as windowscommander)
In unix environments i really can’t live without my cmd-line.
Explorer is nice but buggy, often gives me 32767333 minutes remaing when copying large files, crashes etc.
Konqueror is good, but I have to disable features for speed.
XFTree is simple and workable, but you have to set up all the mime types..
So in conclusion, probably the konqueror.
Yeah –
an oldie, and surpassed largely by DirectoryOpus on the Amiga, but for some reason DiskMaster was always ideal for me.
– Porter
The old school Windows 3.1 file manager worked good enough for me.
Rebel said:
>Simple, lighting fast but deceptively powerful too. One >thing I’ve never understood about Windows Explorer is how >looooooong it takes to read and display a large directory >of files. Opus is almost instant
until last year I still used Dopus4 on my old Amiga to manage and tidy up the files on my windows machines through a samba net connection. Strangely listing Windows files on Dopus4 through the network was faster than listing them directly on their own machine with explorer if you are some folders deep in the tree… And Dopus has some usefuk sizing features I’m missing under Windows…
Not true that no one uses this anymore. When I’m not using OS X I still find the NeXT interface blows all other x86 alternatives away, and Openstep 4.2 will be on my harddrive as long as I have a pc that will run it. I truly doubt that windows or X will ever offer anything as elegant and pleasing to use as the incredible NeXT graphical environment.
5 minutes scripting can replace hours of DnD!!!
The most effective file manager I’ve worked with: ZtreeWin (and ZtreeBold for OS/2). Of course, they descend from the venerable XtreeGold for DOS. Example: press B to flatten a subdirectory, Ctrl+T to mark all files in the flattened subdirectory, Ctrl+S to search for a string (a regex, in fact) in the marked files, Ctrl+V to browse the files found, etc…
There are many many more things that are a chore or just impossible to do in other FM or the command line, and are a breeze to do in Ztree.
I find XFtree the filemanager with the XFce desktop the best and nost productive filemanager for me, when I am in KDE I still will use it rather than that chaotic mess Konqueror. Then as for Bloatilus in Gnome enough said.
I find that I quite like EmelFM and Rox but I still prefer to use XFtree as my default filemanager.
In Windows I much prefer PowerDesk to Windows Explorer.
other: gnome-terminal
who the hell actually USES a file manager?! gneesh.
rox baby. ROX!
I prefer handling files with ksh (bourne shell). It’s so much more powerful when handling large amounts of files.
Also, I find that most of these graphical filemanagers are too bloated & slow to be useable.
But that’s just my opinion. It’s good to have choice, so anyone can use what he/she likes best.
Total Commander–improved clone of Norton Commander–is my choice on Windows; while,
Krusader–clone of Total Commander–is my choice on Linux. I’ve been using them all for many years.
Richard.
Little known but extremely capable dual-pane FM. It may be ugly as there is no eye candy but it serves its purpose quite well. The integrated terminal is also a nice feature for those times when a command line makes the most sense.
when i want to excercise my pointer-tool (mouse) i choose rox cause it kick ass! but i’m down wit bash most of the time.
i like ROX 🙂 very small and very fast
Those two are way ahead of all the others, I like them both but if I have to choose an absolute favorite, sorry guys but Konq wins hands down.
CLI all the way.
The PC version (at http://www.dopus.com), still made by GP Software, is the coolest file manager ever.
It deserves to be in the polls.
Tough choice – both are optimized for speed, but in very different ways. Battle for excellence.
Xtree is pretty pathetic, though. I wonder who the heck voted for that.
/usr/bin/csh
/bin/cp
/bin/rm
/bin/mv
/bin/ls
/bin/ln
/bin/mkdir
/bin/cat
/bin/chmod
/bin/chgrp
/bin/chown
/usr/bin/grep
/usr/bin/find
/usr/bin/xargs
/bin/mkdir
/usr/bin/sed
That’s my “File Manager”, and I have yet to find a GUI one that can beat it.