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submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by Flagstaff@programming.dev to c/linuxmint@programming.dev

Nemo: I can't move to search results without the mouse. This is unacceptable in 2026... But at least it has Meld as an awesome file-compare plugin in the Software Manager. However, it has no audio statistics and can't view audio metadata in file properties.

Thunar: I can select search results by keyboard, but I can't cut and paste files from an external drive to the internal drive; for some reason "Paste" is grayed out. It has no "open as root" folder feature, but I can at least cut regardless in Nemo without root access.

Yazi: I can't even install it because sudo apt install snapd, which seems to be a prerequisite to getting it on here, is yielding:

Package snapd is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'snapd' has no installation candidate

I had bad experiences with Double Commander and Dolphin on Windows; it was just harder to do stuff and the context menus felt lacking. Are they still worth trying?

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[-] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 17 hours ago

I'd give dolphin a try. I know it can cut/paste across drives, I did that the other day.

However, I'm not sure about the search issue. I use my mouse heavily because it's faster for me.

It's always worth trying something you haven't used on Linux yet, and it's often worth trying something you haven't used in a while since updates exist.

[-] adarza@piefed.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

for what it's worth, i just did all this in dolphin with just the keyboard: keyword search in ~, navigated results, picked a range of files, copied to clipboard, navigated to a secondary drive and directory on it, and pasted those files.

[-] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 7 points 14 hours ago

One more vote for Dolphin. KDE apps let you define custom keyboard shortcuts, so OP might be able to create one for focusing the search box

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 30 minutes ago

I just want to be able to tab over from the query field to the results. It's insane that Nemo doesn't have this. I'll revisit Dolphin, thanks.

[-] kata1yst@sh.itjust.works 5 points 16 hours ago

Dolphin is great. PCManFM is also stellar.

[-] Flagstaff@programming.dev 1 points 30 minutes ago

Thanks, I don't think I either heard or remembered that last one!

[-] tatterdemalion@programming.dev 5 points 17 hours ago

Try following the official installation instructions: https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/installation/#debian

Or if that doesn't work, build from source. Build Rust projects from source is generally pretty easy.

this post was submitted on 06 Jun 2026
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