 Everybody welcome back to the channel today. We're gonna be talking a little bit about file managers So I've been on a quest for a long time to find a good file manager when I was a Windows user I was always looking for something that was alternative to Windows Explorer because Windows Explorer is kind of bad and When I moved to Linux, I was like, oh, you know, there's gonna be a lot of good open source file managers, you know, it's good And they're gonna have all these options and we're gonna be able to customize things and it's just gonna be oh It's gonna be so amazing I've been so disappointed I've just been so disappointed You're a lot of people use Nautilus Not a bad file manager heavy But not a bad file manager. A lot of people use Thunar Has some quirks, but not a bad file manager If you're on plasma you use Dolphin probably the most customizable of every mainstream file manager out there And it's fine. It's mostly, you know As with a lot of KD stuff, it's kind of a little bloated because of all the customization But what I've been searching for is a Non-mainstream file manager that has dual panes of tab the ability to do tabs Uh And I'm not found a good one Now there are some good ones in the terminal like ranger and vifm and and and and Those are all pretty good for what they are But there's times when you really need a GUI file manager. You can't drag and drop out a ranger Sadly, you can't you can't drag and drop out of vifm or nnn You just can't do that and when you want to take a file from A file manager and then put it into a browser you have to drag and drop. That's a that's a gui related operation And like I said, you can't do those in a tui So I've been trying to find trying and hunting and failing to find really a good Uh file manager that allows you to do double dual pane. So let me show you what I'm talking about when Uh, I talk about dual pane This is a dual pane file manager. This here is called double command And it's the only one that I found that actually is a being still updated and b Actually works. Um, there's one out there called space fm. I think it hasn't been updated in like four years And it crashes every time you try to You, um Drag something out of it. So that wasn't an option. There was another one called sunflower And that one there you can't you can't drop drag things between one Pain in the other pain. I was like, and what's the point of having a dual pane file manager? It was bad. It's it was baffling to me. So That's what I've been doing for the last few days is hunting for a Dual pane file managers. Now you're probably wondering why matt. Why do you want a dual pane file manager? You know, can't you just use tabs? Yes, you can use tabs, but I like to have both things open at the same time I don't want to have to have multiple windows. So I could I could go through and uh, let's just do here just do uh, thunar and Thunar I could do that technically that's a dual screen file manager. I mean Whatever and that's not really what I was, you know Really what I was, you know wanting to do but I could do that um But I like this I like it in one application where the side by side And I like to have like two files open side by side and so I can drag and drop between them So like I have like a my videos tab here, which is on my main hard drive Which is where all my obs stuff is recorded as you can see it's blinking now. That means I'm recording something Uh, and then when I'm done with that, I'll transfer to my, you know, uh ssd my so all my videos are stolen start on this ssd Which is you know another hard drive and I can drag them back and forth between them whatever I need I don't have to go through and drag them to different tabs now I can drag them to tabs because this also has tabs. It has that option I want that functionality and this is the only uh one that I found That works Uh, it's called double command. I will leave a link to it in the in the descriptions in the the um video description And I'll become I'll be a hundred percent honest. I don't care for it all that much It's not It's functional But it's not anywhere near and too good enough So it has these little buttons you wouldn't even know these are buttons So but if you wanted to go home you just click on this till the thing and it'll take you to the home directory That's great, but it's so small. You can't really I mean it took me a while to even notice that that was there And these other ones here do you know different things? And if you look at the uh Preferences or whatever the options You open this up here Look at this Look at all these options now. I understand you want things to be configurable I love the I love that they had this many options. That's fantastic um It's just that it's not From what I what I can tell let me let me see if I bring up a browser here uh But I guess I was wrong. It was it's double commander This is the the documentations which I didn't even know it was here um Beginnings guidelines And then turns to you over to github, which is good. Um required tools So it looks like it is fairly well documented, but I don't want to have to dig into documentation to find stuff unless I absolutely have to I'm a I'm a dude I know who who the hell reads has time to read instructions. Um, like I don't Uh, the good news is that um That's weird apparently they're not Hosted on github, but they use github for their documentation So they they're hosted on source forage post their documentation on github. That's a little weird As you can tell I'm just I'm not all that happy with it. Um Mostly because it's it's very very complicated and I'm having to kind of sift I also don't care for the The the interface all that much these little buttons If I want to know what the hell they do I have to hover over them So like, you know thumbnails and if we let's just say I go into a picture folder and you know what my waffle holder No preview on these in this mode you have to switch over to the thumbnail mode and then they look like this now In a normal file manager if you wanted to go through and do Uh You know Make things bigger you just you know hit the control button in this mouse wheel or Maybe the mouse wheel or maybe control plus None of those work You can't make them bigger At least that I've been able to find maybe there's a Like a show No favorites tabs network command mark Like here's another thing every program that has a A visual different views or whatever has a view menu. This one. It does not have a view menu It doesn't there's no there's no way to do that and I'll maybe if I go into the uh The options here and do um, hmm behaviors, maybe no I mean, this is what I'm talking about the things are so all over maybe layout here um, no um Yeah There appears to be no way to zoom in And that's really very weird. I mean every file manager has the ability to zoom in and I can't figure out how to do it on this I'm not bashing really on double commander I'm thankful that it's actually here because I'm going to continue to use because I want that desperately want that dual pane functionality I wish that space fm was still being updated and had that bug fixed because I like that The layout of that one much better, but like I said the question I have is where are all the good file managers that aren't the bug standard ones from distros or That's up environments. We have dunar nautilus and nemo and dolphin. Those seems to be the four main ones And those are great If all you want is just a standard file manager, but if you want extra options And specifically you want the dual pane thing that I want It seems like you're up shit creek Basically, this is just me ranting and going through and saying this is what I want Why isn't there these things that I want greedy little bastard that I am little um, but I wanted to talk I was I have a video planned on Double commander and I'm going to I'm going to do that because I've only been using double commander for a couple days And I want to go through and troll through all those settings that I showed you and see if I can You know customize it to the way I wanted to you know to the point where it's actually good And stuff because there's just weird functionality where if you transfer a file between one folder and other it actually Shows you a big pop-up and on a on a display man around a window manager It tends to make that pop up full screen, which is annoying some Maybe I'll have to go through and create a dwm rule in order to make that floating or whatever It's going to be a pain in the butt There's just so many things and I just wanted to do this a little rant because I We have all these options when it comes to you know video Editors and photo editors and all this stuff the file manager seems to have just kind of gone by the wayside We just don't have any good ones now. Maybe it's because they've tried and failed like space FM has obviously been abandoned Sunflower or whatever I don't know if that's still been abandoned or still being Developed on but it was bad I think if you can't drag between the pains there was no point in having pains Um, maybe I was just doing something wrong. It's possible that I was doing something wrong because I only used it for about 20 minutes And when I realized I couldn't do that and then trolled through the settings for a little while And you couldn't find a setting to enable it. I was like, oh, I'm deleting this off my system I've had a lot of rants lately, but this is it's just we're all the good file managers right, bro I don't understand what on earth is going on when it comes to file managers on linux. Um It seems not unless it's heavy and doesn't have a lot of options A dolphin is heavy and has way too many options. I don't I'm using a I'm using ddm dwm for a reason or even just take the dwm stuff out of it. I'm using a winter manager for reason I don't want to download all the kde dependencies The dolphin would take an order to bring it on because for all I know Dolphin has a dual pain mode. It's possible that it does I'm not going to download all the kde dependencies to find out Maybe if I were to download kde again and use kde, I did that on my arco install for a little while And I also had like 3000 packages on my system. But by the time I was done with it Kde just so has all these dependencies and I don't want that for just one program. So that's not an option The other day when I reviewed linux mint I got exposed to nemo for the first time or maybe the first time in a long time and it looked okay It had a good option I really kind of cooed over the idea That allowed you to hide the file file mint menu and then be able to bring it back something that thunar lacks I mean, it seems like it's such a simple feature, but it was like oh, that's kind of awesome, but It's too simple So that goes the other option other way, you know other end of the spectrum for you know than dolphin and um I guess matai has something called kaha. I think that's just an old version of nemo I haven't used that in ages because I haven't used matai in ages. So Really, this is just like I said, this was just rant I'm on this quest. So if anybody knows of a dual pane file manager gooey file manager That works well that is still being updated. I don't I mean if The settings on double commander, they're a little bit of a mess, but I'm okay with it If the one you recommend has settings like that and there are kind of a mess. I'm okay with that too, but Just somebody please tell me that there's one out there that's good because windows has good ones that are alternatives to windows file Uh, the windows explorer and then you know, they're paid and they're closed source, but they're good Now I know that there's a um Let's see There's a closed source one on dual pane file manager There's a closed source one here that omg of boon too. It's called f-man The problem is I don't want to pay for a file manager. It just does really don't want to pay for Um, I understand software costs money, but I would rather if I was going to give money to something I'd rather give it to something that is open source um But I'm thinking about giving this a try Um, I'd like to see some more screenshots because that screenshot literally does nothing for me um Maybe there's some more screenshots here But even then I want I don't I don't know if I want to use a closed source one And I definitely don't want to have to pay for a closed source one. I'll pay for open source software I will not pay for closed source software unless I absolutely absolutely have to so that is uh it for this video if You like this video give it a thumbs up if you didn't give it a thumbs down If you can support the channel in any number of ways the best way to do so is to subscribe You can also support us on patreon at patreon.com slash till next cast or follow us on twitter or facebook and all those things So, uh, thank you for watching. I'll see you next time