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I tried many commander-style file managers on many OSes. Some of them deliberately imitating Total Commander. But none of them really feels like the original. S
by qwerty456127 3y ago
I tried many commander-style file managers on many OSes. Some of them deliberately imitating Total Commander. But none of them really feels like the original. Some even look better and can be more powerful in some aspects yet I don't really feel that comfortable using them. Many are tolerable though.
In my oppinion Total Commander is the number-one best and most useful computer program ever made and the best UX. And yes, despite spending years using Norton Commander when I was a child, I always liked Total Commander (Windows Commander back in the days) better than the Far Manager - another alternative which imitated Norton Commander more closely and is considered more powerful by some people.
- wiz21c 3y agoAh Norton Commander... I was wondering if someone would pop up the father of them all... Fond memories of that blue screen :-)
- Daril 3y agoI cannot live without Midnight Commander !
- qwerty456127 3y agoI use it a lot when I have to operate on files in a terminal but it feels limited, inflexible and stagnant. Lack of background operations support is particulrly annoying. In my oppinion they should have made it more customizable and extensible, e.g. through a Python or a Lisp plug-in API or something like that. I can even imagine it being more powerful than Total Commander is whle keeping similarly user-friendly. One cool thing about a GUI file manager are file type icons which indicate a file type concisely without the ugliness and ADHD-nightmare of painting each file name in a different colour (the way terminal-based file managers do) but this can probably be solved using Unicode emojis modern terminals mostly support.