There is also Krusader that might be worth looking into.
I don’t know how much of this is going on now, but in the early days, one could run a variety of linux apps in windows with the correct runtimes installed. this may be how WINE came about?
I was like wait this is so cool then I realized I’m on Linux already
Oh shit
Great! Dolphin is also better than macOS Finder. I would replace it with Dolphin as well.
However, Windows Explorer in Windows 11 still excels in one area: it doesn’t have a header, and the tabs are displayed on the header, like in Chromium.
It’s also annoying that all KDE Dolphin tabs have that red [X] button. Sadly, the KDE developers reject great PRs like this one: https://invent.kde.org/system/dolphin/-/merge_requests/269
Who even presses those [X] buttons? I always use the Ctrl+W shortcut.
the most recent version of Finder is… a bit weird. I like all of the tools and functions it has, but it’s a huge departure from the previous version of Finder, and I’m not a super-fan of some of the feature implementations. but, if you’re used to using Finder for a lot of work, you won’t feel too out-of-place.
I haven’t used Dolphin in over a decade, so perhaps I’ll check it out.
Still excels? I don’t recall windows explorer ever being good at anything!
You are saying you like the tabs in the header, so at the top. But Dolphin lets you split, which would make that not make as much sense.
No windows 32 bit version??? Lazy asses, it’s just a checkbox! /s
The thing that really annoys me with Linux file explorers is that none of them have a “sort by extension”. They have sort by type, but it’ll mix .jpg, .png, .gif and .webp together, for instance.
I just checked and Dolphin very much has that feature, the wording in English might not be exactly the same as I have the UI in my native language but I found it in the hamburger menu under Sort by>Other>File extension.
There’s also Sort by → Type, which does largely the same (but isn’t dependent on the file being named correctly).
obligatory linux user: whats an extension? Surely you mean File Type.
Does anyone else remember when you could replace windows ui entirely with plasma or did I hallucinate that memory
One of my favorite creators, MichaelMJD made a Video about this.
Good news is I could install this without admin priveleges at work. Bad news is that while it can see my onedrive folder it behaves very badly with onedrive, click on a folder and it just dissappears. It did the same thing with Google drive as well. Since cloud is where all my data lives it’s not usable currently. =(
NGL, I didn’t realise it’s an actual Dolphin icon on the folder until I saw this post. I always have the Dolphin pinned on my taskbar but it’s teeny tiny so I couldn’t make out the symbol.
I actually like the Windows file explorer. Used to be my favorite, before Dolphin. Nowadays I’d say Dolphin is slightly better overall, but could still use a change inspired by Windows or two. For instance, I really like the drive view on the Windows file explorer’s home page.
In the newest versions, idk about older ones, dolphin lists all attached drives with a progress bar to show how full they are on the left panel, not too different from what youre suggesting, just built into the sidebar instead of a “my computer” type page.
It’s nice, but I just really like the Windows’ design of this feature. Not really anything functionality-related. Honestly, I wish I could just have the file manager from Windows Vista or 7. I don’t even need tabs.
I have one old laptop with Windows 10 sitting around, and only because it’s the only way to update the Xbox Series controller I have that randomly bootloops and thus is essentially useless anyway.
So this begs the question: how much of Windows can I delete and replace with foss stuff, while still having it technically be a Windows OS?
Soon:
“I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows/NT, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows plus NT. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another nonfree component of a fully functioning free GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX… and whatever NT does.”
The absolutely most? ReactOS. It’s not really suitable for daily use, but it is essentially a clean room reverse engineering project of Windows itself.
Yeah I check in on React OS every few months. Maybe someday I’ll give it a try, but it’s still so much in alpha status.
That is cool as heck! I’ve got some reading to do.
You mean GNU\Windows\NT
Backslashes in file paths makes me go 🔥😡🤬😤😾💥
That’s just running a full fat installation of Windows.
Sounds more like Winbloat. >_>
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I like Thunar better. There was something really minor about Dolphin I didn’t like. Maybe it was the way it handled tags or something, I can’t remember anymore.
Thunar = 🐐
Although, the only reason I use it is because when i made the switch many moons ago, i was following this guy’s tutorial on setting up i3 and he recommended thunar. Never looked back (although, at this point i think its more about the ui than any functional difference)
spent almost a decade straight on Win10 LTSC then switched to regular Win11 - I think Microsoft forgot how to make software. Vanilla edition is so bloated it is scary. Considering embracing Ubuntu.
awesome, tho tbh i like total commander on windows
Yeah, still a shame that never got ported to Linux. There’s Double Commander, which is fine, but still a little inferior somehow.
double commander had a weird issue where the window size wouldn’t change properly and display solid color in resized area on my system for some reason :/
gentoo, worker and xfe all seemed to be pretty good, but i haven’t really tried them much. mc usually works well enough.
Have you tried mc? (Midnight commander I think it’s the full name).
