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[-] mbirth@lemmy.mbirth.uk 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What's the big selling point compared to ranger, nnn, yazi or broot?

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 53 points 2 years ago
[-] jaxxed@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I like fancy

[-] MangoPenguin 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I haven't used any of the 3, but from a look over them superfile looks a lot more user friendly and has a nicer overall look.

Edit; the install process is rough though, complains about missing glibc but searching for that package in apt doesn't show anything promising. It also seems to require some kind of third party font that isn't included? I gave up lol that's too much for me to deal with.

[-] moog@lemm.ee 20 points 2 years ago

Glibc is the gnu c library. You wouldn't just download that from apt. I'm surprised your Linux distro doesn't already have that installed.

[-] MangoPenguin 9 points 2 years ago

It's definitely a big learning curve with how complex installing things on linux is haha, I'm still used to windows just open the exe installer and that's it.

[-] moog@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah I hear that. I will say aptitude made my life a lot easier in terms of installing things with its recommended fixes. Also good software documentation should have a "Getting Started" section that gives you step by step instructions for each OS/Distro of how to install it. If it doesn't... Well maybe that software isn't worth installing anyway 🤷‍♂️

[-] MangoPenguin 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean there's that, but it's a lot of work for a dev too.

I would rather Linux just be able to detect what's missing and install it for me. In the case of a lot of missing components, what it says is missing will be named completely different from the package you need to install which makes it really hard.

It was always nice with windows installers because they would come with the needed components, or windows would just prompt to install them automatically.

I guess that's essentially what Flatpak solves!

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[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago

Could be a (too) old version if you're still on the Ubuntu 22.04 base

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 7 points 2 years ago

It depends on the distro which release is installed and available. So certainly the problem is, the required and installed glibc library do not match.

[-] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

I had to install Golang and build it myself to make it work with my version of glibc. But in the end the themes aren't rendered properly. In other words, proper Linux experience.

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[-] nfsu2@feddit.cl 8 points 2 years ago

Or nnn for that matter. I will test it anyway.

[-] NoInterest@lemm.ee 42 points 2 years ago

Those who don’t know Norton Commander are condemned to reinvent it.

[-] Malgas@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

Or DOS Shell.

This is much prettier, though.

[-] dino@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 2 years ago

Not written in rust, yuck! 😆

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago
[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Go is pretty cool, better than R

[-] laurelraven 17 points 2 years ago

Why would you even compare Go with R though?

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[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago

Why is it making network connections when I run it?

[-] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Did you check what the connections are about ? Maybe it is only checking for new updates ?

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 38 points 2 years ago

It wanted to download a zip file. Apparently it was a theme. But, I’m not letting a local file manager talk to the internet randomly. If I want to update it, I’ll update it myself. Or, at least provide an option to enable it on first run.

Uninstalled.

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[-] GTG3000@programming.dev 22 points 2 years ago

Ah, Midnight Commander, how have I missed you.

[-] Phanatik@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago

Looks great, I'll give it a bash

[-] mvilain@fedia.io 16 points 2 years ago

Lovely little utility.

Shut up and take my money.

[-] 42yeah@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Feels like dired and mc, but way more stylized and cool.

[-] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago

Yes. I do like that.

[-] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 years ago

It looks like midnight commander with some upgrades

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 years ago

I love mc for its sftp/ssh capabilities. It makes it so much easier to do remote admin/support.

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[-] Mac@mander.xyz 11 points 2 years ago

"pretty fancy" or "pretty, fancy, and ... "?

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 9 points 2 years ago

How does it look like in a proper 80x25?

[-] eshep@social.trom.tf 9 points 2 years ago

@lemmyreader Looks quite snazzy!

[-] crazyminner@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

That name tho... Maybe could have chosen a different one.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 9 points 2 years ago

Nah, its easy to remember. Its a good name

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[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago

This looks super cool, but I've been using midnight commander for so so long.

[-] nfsu2@feddit.cl 7 points 2 years ago

Oy! You rick rolled us.

[-] mub@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Linux user. Installs fancy gui. Uses terminal for file management.

/Use your own meme format.

[-] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago

It has a font requirement? That's just weird..

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 26 points 2 years ago

Not really? It has alot of icons which are all driven by nerd font. Also you can basically use any font you want, neard just addes some extra glyphs

[-] nul9o9@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the share!

I've always liked tui file managers, broot is a pretty cool one as well.

[-] daisyKutter@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Looks very cool!

[-] Red_sun_in_the_sky@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago
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