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KikiKDE and bouba GNOME (thelemmy.club)
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[โ€“] 30 points 8 months ago* (12 children)

i just can't stand gnome anymore, it was my favorite for a long time too. KDE is fine but I fucking hate Dolphin. I'm into Cosmic right now but I'm not sure I like the file manager

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    Interesting, dolphin is by far my favorite file manager. What don't you like about it?

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  • [โ€“] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    I'd have to use it again to tell you, to be honest. It's been couple months since I last did and so my memory is a little foggy except for my dislike. I remember not liking how tabs work and how it took a bunch of tinkering to make it less annoying.

    on a machine that I ran for years, i basically did kde but with a different file manager, that was wonky and presented it's own problems but it wasn't Dolphin so I was satisfied

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  • [โ€“] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    on a machine that I ran for years, i basically did kde but with a different file manager

    Might've been PCManFM-Qt, which is also used by LXQt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCMan_File_Manager
    At least, that's another Qt file manager I know of.

    Well, or it was Krusader: https://krusader.org/
    But Krusader is funky, i.e. similar to Total Commander and GNU Midnight Commander...

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Krusader (or generally dual-pane file managers) is great once you get used to it. I have been using it (and Double Commander on Windows) for years now and wouldn't want to get back to anything else.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago

    Yeah, I often hear that. A few years ago, I tried to get into Krusader, because I also liked some of the features it has, but after two weeks or so, I realized that I don't use the file manager nearly often enough to make progress in learning a different workflow. ๐Ÿ˜…

    Well, and I also kind of had the problem that navigating into directories is quite fast on the terminal, especially with Fish shell, so I often do that there and then run open . to launch the GUI file manager for the thumbnails or dragging into other GUI applications.
    And that Frankenstein workflow is kind of diametrically opposed to dual-pane file managers, where you really need to navigate to different locations in the respective pane from within the file manager. ๐Ÿซ 

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Cosmic is fun and has a lot of potential. Itโ€™s a bit like a new take on XFCE. However it has weird limitations and bugs still. For example when editing the top and bottom panel, itโ€™s divided into beginning, end, and center. XFCE and other solve this with providing a flexible space to achieve the same.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    I have discovered a few anoyances with Cosmic, the file manager is crap lol

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, itโ€™s early days.ย 

    There are a couple of really cool projects going on at the moment, that use some kind of tiling.

    DankLinux and Noctalia used with niri is worth trying for example.ย 

    Omarchy gets a lot of hate, however itโ€™s actually really well done. Probably the best intro to a tiling window manager with keyboard focus. The included features are well thought out. Included documentation is excellent. It also looks great. Lots of attention to detail. It shows how to make a distro thatโ€™s very different from Windows and Mac OS. Instead of trying to ape the popular OS, it leans into the strengths of Linux. ย 

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