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Total commander is pretty good with no funny business. It's "ugly" though. https://www.ghisler.com/ https://www.ghisler.com/ It even has plugins for ftp and

by 77pt77 3y ago

Total commander is pretty good with no funny business. It's "ugly" though. https://www.ghisler.com/ https://www.ghisler.com/ It even has plugins for ftp and I believe sftp.

thot_experiment 3y ago
I didn't realize there was an android version, I'll have to take a look. I am incapable of using a windows computer without Total Commander, I've used it more than any other program, full stop. Probably since I was 4 or 5 years old. Life without it is unimaginable.
- 77pt77 3y ago
  I didn't know there was a Windows version. The Android version works great. I don't know of a better alternative.
  - lodovic 3y ago
    fun fact: Total Commander is inspired by Midnight Commander, which in its turn is a clone of Norton Commander, which was first released in 1986.
    - folmar 3y ago
      And don't forget the sibling lineage of NC, the Volkov Commander, 100% assembly for unparalleled performance.
    - 77pt77 3y ago
      The one that only worked on DOS, right?
hulitu 3y ago
> It's "ugly" though. Just like the whole Android ecosystem. The only thing "pretty" in Android were some buttons in some games. There is also this UI religion that everything must be black with gray or white with gray.
folmar 3y ago
There is also a similar Ghost Commander, full of magic Android hidden/pseudo filesystems browsing capability. https://sites.google.com/site/ghostcommander1 https://sites.google.com/site/ghostcommander1 https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/
- 77pt77 3y ago
  I used to use that. I sincerely prefer total commander. Total commander also has all those goodies, including browsing and backing up apps and using FS providers. Plus ghost commander had this stupid approach about copying into SD card, where if the source was external it had to copy to internal storage first. If it failed the files would just linger there permanently.

by 77pt77 3y ago

Total commander is pretty good with no funny business. It's "ugly" though. https://www.ghisler.com/ https://www.ghisler.com/ It even has plugins for ftp and I believe sftp.

thot_experiment 3y ago

I didn't realize there was an android version, I'll have to take a look. I am incapable of using a windows computer without Total Commander, I've used it more than any other program, full stop. Probably since I was 4 or 5 years old. Life without it is unimaginable.

77pt77 3y ago
I didn't know there was a Windows version. The Android version works great. I don't know of a better alternative.
- lodovic 3y ago
  fun fact: Total Commander is inspired by Midnight Commander, which in its turn is a clone of Norton Commander, which was first released in 1986.
  - folmar 3y ago
    And don't forget the sibling lineage of NC, the Volkov Commander, 100% assembly for unparalleled performance.
  - 77pt77 3y ago
    The one that only worked on DOS, right?

hulitu 3y ago

> It's "ugly" though. Just like the whole Android ecosystem. The only thing "pretty" in Android were some buttons in some games. There is also this UI religion that everything must be black with gray or white with gray.

folmar 3y ago

There is also a similar Ghost Commander, full of magic Android hidden/pseudo filesystems browsing capability. https://sites.google.com/site/ghostcommander1 https://sites.google.com/site/ghostcommander1 https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.ghostsq.commander/

77pt77 3y ago
I used to use that. I sincerely prefer total commander. Total commander also has all those goodies, including browsing and backing up apps and using FS providers. Plus ghost commander had this stupid approach about copying into SD card, where if the source was external it had to copy to internal storage first. If it failed the files would just linger there permanently.