 So earlier this year I made a video talking about how much I really enjoyed the Nemo file manager and Nemo is great It's been my main file manager now for the end that entire time It's fast. It has a lot of features that I enjoy especially dual pane mode Which I just can't seem to live without and it's well designed and it's updated frequently and all this stuff It's it's a great little file manager and I know what you're thinking Matt File managers don't really matter all that much just use one How often do you visit a file manager? And that's true for most people most people? Probably don't give two craps about you know what file manager they use they really just don't and That's fine for most people for me the file manager is one of the tools that I use most during the day I Have that thing open constantly on one of my workspaces and I use it all the time whether it's to drag files back and forth between Katie and live or OBS or Audacity or to the browser or all over the place and you know I use it just all the time and it's one of the apps that I have open all the time so You can tell that I'm probably a little particular when it comes to my file manager and For the longest time I've been using Nemo and Nemo's like I said is great But there was a feature that I was missing One of the things that I do in the file manager that is really you know kind of unique to the file manager I don't I don't use tabs a lot in like the browser like I very rarely have more than Seven or eight tabs open in a browser. I okay yesterday I watched an Epos Fox video the one about stream labs and he has like a hundred tabs open It was blowing my mind, but I don't do that in the browser But I do kind of do that in the file manager when I have a file manager open I have two pains and then each pain has five or six or ten tabs open to different directories that I'm always going to back and forth and I Like that functionality and Nemo does a good job of it But the problem is once you close Nemo and reopen it it just opens up at a default location It doesn't remember where you were what I really wanted was to have a file manager that would remember Position like when you close it and you reopened it it remember it would remember where you were When you closed it It's not a feature that is very prominent in file managers Let me tell you I've been searching far and high for file managers that do this and There aren't that many dolphin does it but dolphin comes with half the KD plasma stack and it's not that great Because I really don't want to have to download all that stuff If I'm not gonna use plasma, you know as a desktop environment Something called index does it it's based on Maui kit, but it's very very new. It doesn't have a ton of features in it so you can't I I might try it again, but wait until it's been developed a little bit more and something like Double commander seems to do it, but I didn't care for the double commander UI at all like it has it had your connected drives your mounted drives at the top and On both sides of the I'm both pains and I couldn't you can't get rid of it So it was kind of a deal-breaker for me the UI was just bad and the settings that for double commander is just I mean I'm all for customization like I love Customization give me all the settings like that's why I like KD so much But the settings for double commander was just a total mess so the bottom line is is I've been searching for a file manager that Would allow me to do this and nosy on my discord server recommended an app called crusader now if you don't know what crusader is crusaders actually The file manager that Katie used Previously as far as I know and or maybe an alternative file manager I'm actually not sure, but I know it's developed by the Katie guys or someone who is associated with the Katie guys as you Can tell by the name it's spelled K. R. U. S. A. D. E. R So obviously it's meant to go with KD plasma and it's similar to dolphin in that it has a Absolute crap ton of dependencies like there's just a ton of them And it doesn't even come with all of them pre-installed if you want a whole bunch of features that should be kind of default You actually have to install those separately and I'll talk about that in a minute But out of the box crusaders actually kind of cool despite the fact that it has a ton of dependencies And it seems to have at least all the features that I'm looking for except for one and I'll talk about again that later So first let me just show you what my install of crusader looks like This is crusader now as you can tell it's not the prettiest application out there and a Lot of times the superficial stuff matters to me a lot like I want my applications to look good But in the case of the file manager, I truly don't care I do want it to be functional have a ton of features that I care about and In this case crusader seems to have quite a few of them that are really good So for example, it has tabs you can see down here along the bottom. I have a ton of tabs open I like I know people think I'm crazy, but I really do have this many tabs open all the time And this is usually a minimum usually I have about double this amount. It's absolutely insane like a Like right now I'm editing Or I just edited the three cast which is my other podcast so have that open I have the the folder open for the podcast that Tyler and I just recorded today So I mean I have all the stuff open all the time like I don't want those things to go away I mean, I could just reopen them when I want to but I like having them just open It's kind of like a to-do list that so I remember that it's there But the point is it has tabs and if I close this and Then reopen it as you can see it remembered where I was that is fantastic It's like the number one feature that I would request out of any file manager It's I think they should all have that because I mean you close your your applications all the time or you'd ever reboot or something Like that and you want to come back to this and it'd be a pain in the ass to have to go through and reopen all these tabs One by one, which is what I had to do in Nemo and so this is fantastic for me So the tabs thing and the resuming of the session is really good for me It also has a ton of settings just like you'd expect any Katie application to have But it's not as much of a mess as something like double commander was that it this is just basically a Katie's You know settings panel and it has a ton of you know a ton of Settings and stuff like you can add now when you first start up crusader You'll get a couple notifications saying here are some things That are enabled or disabled based on the things that you have installed So for example out of the box you can't manage bookmarks in this application like at all You have to have a separate application under do that and it will tell you what applications You need to install in order to do these certain things now That's a really weird way of doing things I would prefer you just just install the stuff that I need in order for it to be a functional file manager That's what I prefer but I can understand I mean there'd be like even more dependencies pre-installed if they did that so I can understand at least giving you the choice So it's that's kind of good, but some of the things are the bookmarks seems like you should have that functionality built in But it's not it's not a huge deal. I just downloaded the thing that I needed to you know install Now here's the thing For the most part, I'm in love with this application. I like it a lot a lot a lot as I've been tinkering with it now for a whole day And there's just a ton of stuff here that I haven't even got into yet that I that I'm going to over the next week or so And I love the features that are Important to me like I really enjoy the resumable features. I love the dual pane mode by default I love the tabs. I figured out the bookmarking system so that I can get to the folders that I use most often You know, I figured all that stuff out and it works fine The one feature or excuse me the two features that are missing that don't seem to be able to be enabled at all like even with another dependency our Single-click to open so single click to open seems to be something that Katie removed from all their apps And they put that in the Katie plasma settings so that if you want to actually use single click to open You actually have to have plasma installed which is it's It seems a little user user hostile because I want to use some of these applications outside of plasma and now I can't change that which is Really disappointing. So if I if I show you here Selection mode we see that double-click selects is an option here, but there's no Alternative to that. There's no single click to select option and that's really, you know kind of disappointing Like I said, you can't change it. It's just something you'd have to change in Katie settings and I don't have Katie installed So that's one feature. I'm so used to single-click to install to select or to open I guess a single click to open that you know, I'm gonna miss it But I think that I can go back to the old way of doing things and use double-click. It's fine I got I'll move past it. The other one is much more of a deal breaker for me I'm not sure if I'm gonna be able to get past it or not And that is image previews as far as I can tell and from the searching that I've done Crusader does not have image previews at all now It has an option up here in the view menu called show previews and you click on that And then you change like to a different tab Sometimes this goes away. Sometimes it stays and it doesn't really seem to matter whether it's on or off because there's no actual previews here. So if I go to my Pictures folder this has all pictures in it. This is just logos for things that I use for thumbnails There doesn't seem to be a way to actually see what these things look like if like for example if you were in Dolphin I think you can go through and enable a pane for previews or in some file managers You can hit spacebar and it will go through and bring up like a like a pop-up of the of the thing You have it over There's no there's nothing like that here. There's no preview pane There's no none of that stuff. You can't make you can make this stuff bigger, but it just I mean as you can tell it Just it just shows the icon so it doesn't actually show the picture which is Like I said, it may very well be a deal-breaker for me because Believe it or not. I have No Like I did it memory. I can't remember what like some of these things are well named like this here I know that's the discord logo, but for example like if we go down here to the else I have a lot of Linux logos, but there's one logo that I prefer that I use for most of my stuff here It's like a very modern version of tux and the name of I named it very creatively Linux And I actually have two versions of it Linux when Linux 2 The problem here is that I have a whole bunch of stuff named Linux I also have several things named tux so figuring out which which is which is kind of Hard because I don't know the names for everything that I've you know saved over the years like I have probably a million photos and a million images saved on my computer and like I said I don't know all of them and it gets it it gets even worse if I go here to the Screenshot folder I have these like these are by dates like seriously How am I supposed to know what these things are now? I could I Could if I wanted to go through each of one of them and rename them to something descriptive But that's just just sounds like a waste of time to me So the fact that this doesn't have image previews may be a deal-breaker for me if I I Don't want it to be because I like this so much I don't want it to go. I don't I don't want to have to go away because there's no the thing is here Folks is that this is my last option when it comes to these features like if I can't get this to work There doesn't seem to be another solution for me That does the things that I want to do namely have really good tab support and also have the ability to remember the session And that's really important. I really really want that now. I could download Dolphin But and I did done actually did download Dolphin yesterday The problem is it doesn't play very well with a tiling window manager This will crusader does a way better job of actually being a good citizen in tiling win in DWM in For for Dolphin it just it was broken like things weren't working properly And also they've taken a lot of settings out of Dolphin and put them in the KD Plasma settings application And I don't have Plasma installed. So that was a mess, too. So And this is more of a kind of a rambly video than I was originally planning on doing but and it's such a it's such a nerdy topic like Nobody most people couldn't give a crap about their their file manager They just use whatever one comes with their desktop or distro, you know, what if you use XFC use Thunar if you use Mate use kaja. I think if you use cinnamon use Nemo I might have to switch around. I don't remember if you use gnomes use Nautilus You probably don't even know it's called Nautilus because they just call it files You know, so most people are like that for me. It is important because I I Desire these features like I could get by without them like I could but I don't want to I don't want to have to in a Ideal world I would have a terminal based file manager that I could drag and drop from easily even though It probably wouldn't have the same functionality that I prefer in a GUI. So it would be harder to have like Ranger has tabs, but as far as I know it doesn't have a dual pane mode something like mender midnight commander is I don't know if it has tabs, but it has a double dual pane mode Something like a vifm has dual pane mode, but I'm not sure if it has tabs So finding the perfect one in the terminal would be hard for me too Plus I use drag and drop a lot and somebody's gonna point out. Well, why don't use dragon dragon is broken for me I don't know why it doesn't work for me. I have it installed for Ranger. It just doesn't work It just flashes the screen. I'm assuming that I'm missing a dependency somewhere But the instructions for dragon are like here copy this code make it and install that's the the Entire amount of documentation that dragon seems to have unless I'm missing something which is I mean always possible. So anyways That is it for this video if you Have a suggestion for me in terms of getting either crusader to work better in terms of image previews Maybe you know the way to get image previews in crusader. I would love that. I would give you a heart for that I mean, I give I give those hearts out, you know, pretty liberally anyways, but I'd be really Really appreciative if somebody knows how to get image previews working in crusader Or if you have other options for file managers that have the things that I'm looking for I'm looking for a good tab support I'm looking for resume functionality where they'll resume they'll remember what Session I was in beforehand and I'm looking for obviously image previews and so look at instability like it has to like there was a It was something like double commander, but I don't remember what it was it was something that I was trying out before when I was looking for dual pan file managers and Maybe it was called has maybe had word space in it. I don't remember it doesn't matter But that had all the features that I wanted but it crashed and it was abandoned So I prefer something that's being actively developed so in case something does go wrong again At least have a hope that it might get fixed So if you have any of those things leave those in the comments section below if you want to follow me on Twitter You can do so at the Linux cast you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast before I go I'd like to take one thing my current patrons Devon Chris east coast web gen 2 is fun to petrical primus markets makelyn jackson If tool steve a city Mitchell art center amitas Merrick camp Joshua lead a dog on the bsd rock Thanks everybody for watching. I'll see you next time You