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IMO it's the best (or one of the best) for Windows as well - because it's so feature rich and is free and open source in contrary to TC.
by baal80spam 3y ago
IMO it's the best (or one of the best) for Windows as well - because it's so feature rich and is free and open source in contrary to TC.
- dantondwa 3y agoI agree, I use it on Windows and it’s an amazing piece of software.
- jksmith 3y agoFreepascal/Lazarus with some compression code in C.
- eviks 3y agohow can it be one of the best if it's not even good? For example, it lacks a must have undo feature (just like TC), so you can't easily recover from accidentally deleting the wrong selection of files
- amne 3y agoJust like when I burn my pancakes. I so wish I could CTRL+Z IRL. Those files are gone. Adios. Please don't tell me you use "Recycle Bin".
- stronglikedan 3y agoOf course I use recycle bin. Why wouldn't I use a great tool for the job? It would be negligent not to, when it or similar is available on the OS I'm using. Even this tool uses recycle bin. It may not have a ctrl-z to undo a delete, but it doesn't permanently delete unless explicitly requested. Comparing pancakes to file management is an apples to oranges comparison.
- samstave 3y agoJust like the garbage company in IRL... You place it in the recycle bin, but at the end of the day, it all ends up in /dev/null anyway...
- amne 3y agoThese days almost every file I touch is either downloaded from somewhere or, if I wrote it, pushed to a git repo. Recycle bin is rendered useless.
- rob74 3y agoI won't tell you to use the recycle bin if you don't want to, but DC supports deleting to the recycle bin if you're so inclined (Del/F8 deletes to recycle bin, you have to press Shift for "hard" delete)...
- eviks 3y agoIf only there were a difference between the physical world and a digitalworld.. (and of course I use recycle bin, it'd be dumb not to)
- philonoist 3y agoWhat alternative do you suggest, If I may ask without any intent of rhetoric?
- eviks 3y agoDirectory Opus is the best file manager on Windows
- mariusor 3y agoI think the target audience for orthodox file managers are people that accept, or can live with, the consequences of irreversible file operations.
- eviks 3y agothe target audience can continue to live dangerously, doesn't mean the app can't add this basic feature to be a contender
- jasonjayr 3y agoI am fascinated by your position. Why would it be a must-have operation? What's wrong with tools that take you as close to the machine as possible? We used to have tools that could manipulate the FAT on disk directly readily available! And, IIRC, both TC + DC support deleting to the recycling bin. I know they do, because it's one of the first options I disable when setting them up on a new computer.
- eviks 3y agoBecause it significantly improves UI in the core area of file management (and the issue is undo, not just recycle bin, and it also covers e.g. renames etc that good file managers have) How does undo move you far away from your machine? Any why are you using a GUI tool instead of living in the terminal, terminals are closer to the machine!
- Borg3 3y agoThink twice click once. I suggest you use that maxima or one day you will accidently delete yourself. And this is inreversal operation. ;)
- BeetleB 3y agoI take it you consider most UNIX utilities (cp, rm, etc) to be bad because they lack an undo?
- hulitu 3y agoRm has needed an option "do what i mean, not what i say" [1] from some time. /s [1] https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt
- BeetleB 3y agoAny idea how it compares to Far Manager (https://www.farmanager.com/ https://www.farmanager.com/)?
- malkia 3y agoLong time Far Manager and midnight commander/mc user. Just being at the terminal is good enough for me.