5/30/2023 0 Comments Total commander multi rename tool![]() Once on Linux, I didn't even bother to install a file manager at all, I just kept using the terminal. ![]() At this time on Mac OS X I was barely using the Finder at all, I spent all my time in the Terminal and managed my files from there. I switched from Mac OS X to Linux (Debian) a bit more than 15 years ago. Hopefully the file selection dialogue then isn't totally unrelated from a UI point of view. a "file system interface", probably spatial and a more abstracted powerful file manager could and should co-exist. ![]() Personally, I'd even make the argument that they've become worse at times and that they're not even in the same niche, i.e. I personally wouldn't consider the Win 11 explorer to be that more usable than winfile.exe, but people have different thresholds. ![]() Is it because the system apps have gotten better? Maaaybe. Is it because file usage in general has declined? Generally mabye, but not in that target demographic. I rarely see that these days, both from regular users and my fellow software developers. Next to image viewers probably one of the most common third party tools. There was a pretty huge market of shareware (or open source on linux) for this. Quite often one of the commanders, but I've seen other preferences. ![]() Back in the days, pretty much any "power user" had their own favorite replacement for the built-in stop gap solution. It's interesting to see the "decline" of secondary file managers on Windows and probably Linux systems, too. ![]()
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