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Interesting that you found Dolphin to be a Finder clone. It may well be, I just didn't see it besides some superficial UI similarities. I think Dolphin is one

Interesting that you found Dolphin to be a Finder clone. It may well be, I just didn't see it besides some superficial UI similarities. I think Dolphin is one of the very best Linux apps out there while I found Finder to be very clunky, often so unintuitive and useless that I resorted to command line instead. To be honest, it would probably have been fine if I took the time to learn the Mac idiosyncrasies like missing cut/paste, but Finder was one of my main gripes when I had to use Mac for work.

wearywanderer 5y ago
To be frank I find both Finder and Dolphin to be generally unsatisfactory. Finder is worse though, it's riddled with bugs and weird shit. I could never get Finder to show preview thumbnails of symlinks pointed to files on network mounts (while the Dock's folder view could always thumbnail those same symlinks just fine.) Or, when you mount a network drive, Finder can take dozens of seconds to recognize the mount has succeeded, while in a terminal next to finder you can clearly see it succeeded instantly. In Finder, thumbnailing sometimes breaks and completely stops working, with no indication of why. `qlmanage -r` usually fixes it, but what is the point of using macos if I have to waste my time fixing janky shit in a terminal? It's worse than the modern linux desktop experience. Dolphin just has weird omissions; for instance try to sort a directory of symlinks by the time those symlinks were created. As far as I can tell, you can't do this because Dolphin follows the links and sorts by the dates of targets (contrast with `ls -ltr` and Finder, which sort by the dates of the links.)