Tangentially related: Peter Norton didn't write Norton Commander. The original author was John Socha; the only thing NC has in common with Norton is the name an

Tangentially related: Peter Norton didn't write Norton Commander. The original author was John Socha; the only thing NC has in common with Norton is the name and the Peter Norton Computing brand. As to Midnight Commander: it works well enough for me. The lack of smoothness, such as function keys or ESC not working at all times, is mostly due to the quirks in Unix itself and is no fault of MC per se.