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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by gsich on Sunday June 03, 2018 @09:32PM (#17223782)
What. Windows apps are far from sucking. There is still no OSS match for Windows Explorer.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by PascLeRasc on Monday June 04, 2018 @12:30AM (#17224661)
OS X and every major Linux DE have tabbed file explorers, Windows still doesn't. I've never even heard of a third-party file explorer for any OS.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by jackson1way on Monday June 04, 2018 @11:27AM (#17228660)
I find the file exporers on linux a huge joke, and Finder on OSX is too simple for me.

On Windows I have found XYplorer [1] to be extremly powerful. Its not OSS and its not free, but I happily paid for it once I discovered it. The project is like 20 years old. I have looked for a free replacement for years and always ignored it, which was a mistake.

XYplorer is very well maintained, 0% CPU cost, 1% RAM cost, highly-configurable, has very nice features. Someone really put some thoughts into the UI and UX. I really like the Ghost filter. Ctrl+P is great. Oh and it remembers all opened tree views after restart, so your workspace is exactly the same after a reboot.

[1] https://www.xyplorer.com/

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by gsich on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:29AM (#17225374)
Never missed them.

Total Commander for example.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by rbanffy on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:27AM (#17225654)
Some people missed your sarcasm.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by rbanffy on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:30AM (#17225674)
Now, on a more serious note, I think the way IE3's News and Mail Explorer extension dealt with custom views for filesystems was nothing short of brilliant. I wish we had something like that for Gnome now.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by gsich on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:58AM (#17226555)
The "Windows sucks" meme (if you can call it that) is outdated for like 15 years.
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