I also find it incredible, that there's no GUI button to edit the path. You have to just kind of know that Ctrl+L does that...

Come to the dark side, KDE has Dolphin and it swims faster than any gnome could.

Personally I never understood why file managers in linux refuse to do operations that require privileges. Guess what, if I have Nautilus open and want to move files into, let's say, /usr/local, I don't want to have to switch to the terminal to do so if I already have the stuff copied within nautilus. On Windows, I just get an admin password prompt if I try to do naughty stuff. On Linux, we have the whole polkit system, but no file manager seems to ever use it. Tbf, this is not a nautilus problem, as no file manager seems to do this.

I honestly can never imagine Linux without KDE plasma. It has its flaws for sure, but at least I can modify the shit out of it to force it to meet my needs 100%.

Thunar

I don't even use Linux, but isn't copying and deleting files to simply move them, like super bad in the long run for data integrity?

It's crazy crazy sort order that I can't stand. They deliberately go in and remove certain characters from the filename, specifically to make the sorting behave weirdly.

If the underlying filesystem changes, say a copy operation, the file manager view does not update without a manual refresh by CTL+R. This leaves the view in a stale state, presenting false file information to the user, who might never know until they do something bad. This is a showstopper bug that’s been hanging around since forever.

I don't know what you mean. If a open my Downloads folder and then download something, it shows up in Nautilus without refreshing anything

Batch rename. Good luck trying to rename a series of files ordered sequentially by number, if the number happens to start with any number other than one. A sequence from 2 to x is impossible to batch rename. Because regex in sed never worked either. No, wait. It’s always worked! For like, 50 years.

I mean at least there is a batch rename function unlike in windows

Why, when moving a collection of files or a directory within the same filesystem, does it actually perform a copy and delete operation, taking cpu and time, when the inode location could just be updated like mv does?

Again, I can't reproduce it. I can move many GB instantly using ctrl + x and ctrl + v

The only thing that really annoys me with Nautilus is that you can't type in the directory path you want to open except using ctrl + L. In the hamburger menu there even is an option to copy the path. Why not make one more to edit it? Or replace copy with edit, because when editing you can also copy it anyway

So, gnome is an alternative desktop environment and it's great that they exist. If they inspired Apple's UI or the other way around, doesn't matter but they are the Apple UI of Linux. Mac users switching to Linux can have a somewhat familiar experience.

That said, their "we know better than you what you want, luser" attitude makes it hard for me not to grin when someone rants about their stuff. It shouldn't, because they are probably mostly unpaid contributors and their work should be valued, but once in a while...

Dolphin integrates fine into Gnome. Installs a tooon of dependencies though

It looks pretty though

The one that really irks me now is that Nautilus in Ubuntu doesn't show thumbnails for PNG images in the file selection dialog. It's such an ass-backwards change that I'm legitimately shocked.

Nautilus needs Backspace for up directory. It is not just as good as Thunar, the king of non-TC-style file managers.

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