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Midnight Commander tiny logo
Midnight Commander desktop icon

(on Wikipedia)
Chocolatey: mc
http://midnight-commander.org/

A commandline file manager, with FTP access.

Particularly easy to use and featureful. I consider this an essential tool, but usually forget it exists.



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SpaceFM-logo cropped

Software > File managers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://github.com/IgnorantGuru/spacefm
http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

The current god of file managers.

It's bloody amazing, and does so much "just right". I can tell that the author has his head on straight. It ought to be the default in every Linux distribution which uses GTK+.



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LXDE logo

(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcmanfm/
was https://blog.lxde.org/category/pcmanfm/

For some reason, this is still included by default in many distributions.

It's an awful, awful program. Its UI is such shit that I've still got habits to double-check where my cursor actually is before interacting. Fuck you, PCManFM. Fuck. You.

  • A component of LXDE.
  • (almost) Entirely obsoleted by SpaceFM.

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konqueror logo

Software > File managers, Web browsers >

(on Wikipedia)
https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/ 1

A web browser and file manager for KDE.

The KHTML rendering engine was made for it. Safari also uses that engine. It's nice, but .. could be better. Has insane and not-customizable accesskeys.

See also:



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  1. was https://apps.kde.org/en/konqueror/, https://kde.org/applications/en/konqueror, was https://kde.org/applications/internet/org.kde.konqueror, was http://www.konqueror.org []

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sfm-logo.gif

Software > File managers >

http://rigaux.org/sfm.html [ 1 ] also http://prigaux.chez.com/sfm.html [ 2 ] was people.mandriva.com/%7Eprigaux/sfm.html [ 3 ] was www.chez.com/prigaux/sfm.html

This program is no longer maintained, but it's the only worthy (slim and sensible) X file manager I could find.

thunar might be a challenger, except that sfm lets me very quickly use an alternate app.

  • Note that there are a couple of file managers named "SFM" or "Simple File Manager".



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Footnotes

^ 1 also http://prigaux.chez.com/sfm.html
^ 2 was people.mandriva.com/%7Eprigaux/sfm.html
^ 3 was www.chez.com/prigaux/sfm.html

Software > File managers >

http://cade.noxrun.com/projects/vfu/ 1

A console file manager of some sort.

Tried twice. Both times 2005-06-19 or earlier. No version was recorded, and no notes were taken, aside from "it's not intuitive".

  1. was http://cade.datamax.bg/vfu/ []