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vikas
Just checking it, it is fully open. All the folders and files are front of you. Not a very gui looking but i think i am starting to like it.
Brian Masinick
I see value in a variety of file managers.
The one I’m perhaps most comfortable with is probably either Thunar from Xfce or Konqueror from KDE, but I never install either of them when I use antiX.
The rox-filer, though not very attractive, has a few desirable features that not very many others have; in fact though zzzfm is nicer looking with rich features and more complete documentation, I’ve found a few instances that I don’t remember at the moment which still reminds me of the value of choice.
Midnight Commander is also very fast and simple. I’m grateful for the opportunity to use these classic tools.
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Brian MasinickBobC
I use Midnight Commander constantly and usually have a few windows of it open. I had to reprogram one key for it to work to my liking. I used to love Norton Commander back in the 1980’s and Midnight Commander looks and feels like Norton Commander, but with 1000 enhancements.
I use zzzfm at least once a day, and usually keep one window of it open.
I use Rox-filer when testing things because its the default, but its pretty foreign to me.
I use XFE when hunting for image files because of its very large thumbnail icons.
I have used and like Nemo, as well as SpaceFM and PCManFM, but don’t use them often anymore.Zzzfm fork of a spacefm but i never heard about it(spacefm), when I was scraping internet there were nnn and caja but not spacefm. I was also reading antix had spacefm in previous versions.
Yes, SpaceFM was one of the antiX default file managers I think till antiX 21. SpaceFM doesn’t have anyone maintaining it recently, and had some unaddressed issues, and to correct some of those and reduce system resources needed, zzzfm was forked off it. If I recall, a couple of features that consumed a lot of resources in SpaceFM but were not used very much were removed to lighten it.
antiX’s focus is on keeping older, lower resource hardware still usable in the face of software that keeps getting bigger and slower, and to run today’s browsers, especially, it means that other programs included need to be more efficient to make up for the reduced efficiency of some of the must have apps.
Rox-filer has been pretty stable, but works with a different mentality, and I don’t naturally make the right moves and clicks needed because of it. I do like the Rox desktop’s drag and drop features, but wish they had based it on using the ~/Desktop folder rather than a separate virtual folder list/pinboard methodology, and thus I usually lean towards zzzfm for my file manager, as well as for a desktop, if/when I want one. To each his own, it is nice to have the options to choose from, IMO.
Brian Masinick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_managers is one of the more complete comparisons of file managers, though to get the most complete view possible, you do have to navigate to some of the references.
From what I can tell, much of the development and progress on a couple of the file managers ceased or had minimal work after around 2013, though there were a few updates as late as 2017-2018, until Skidoo took the code from SpaceFM – itself a follow-up to PCManFM – and formed zzzFM – a veiled reference to “sleeping”, lack of follow-up in file manager maintenance.
If you look at the table in the reference, you’ll see what I mean. MANY of these file managers were developed decades ago and have had very little maintenance since then. Midnight Commander, for instance, was developed in the early nineties; ROX-Filer was a bit later, around 2000; PCManFM was around 2006, and SpaceFM was around 2012.
One of the desktop environment File Managers that I’ve used, Thunar, cites development in 2006, though I do believe that through the Xfce project there has been at least SOME work on it since then.
Still, the point of mentioning this is that many of the file managers have not had much maintenance, and that is why zzzFM was created, in order to resolve bugs not fixed in PCManFM or SpaceFM and update dormant code.
On the other hand, I’m not sure if either Midnight Commander or ROX-Filer have a lot of defects; both are quite fast and efficient; maybe not as “feature-rich” as the “newest” file managers, but instead are very fast, simple in purpose, appearance, and features.
Like a lot of other applications, we have a LOT of choice in the Linux ecosystem. The default choices offered with antiX are not necessarily the newest or the fanciest, but they are among the lightest, leanest (and among the fastest).
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Brian MasinickI am clean desktop user even my smartphone screen is free from icons. I like that way.
but they are among the lightest, leanest (and among the fastest).
Brian Masinick
I am right now customising many things that is why i am continously on the browser with 3 or 4 tabs open plus synaptic and some times zzzfm and guess what i install picom and it worked. Still my ram usages not more than 250 to 300.
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