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Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students by copperx on Wednesday October 31, 2018 @11:54PM (#18351348)
I use Linux on my workstation, Windows at work, and Mac on my laptop. I don't get what's so terrible about the Finder. If anything, it makes you miss column view in other desktop environments (and space to preview!). [An aside, regarding Open/Save file dialogs: dragging a file into an open dialog is great, and neither Windows or Linux have been able to do copy that functionality. The best you can do is to copy and paste a path.]

I've asked this before and I've never received a list of grievances which led me to conclude that people are just not familiar with Finder.

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Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students by Jetroid on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:00AM (#18352041)
Have you used ranger, Linux's command line visual file manager? You might like it. Navigate directories/files with arrow keys, space to open/view, ton of shortcuts for eg copy/paste/move/rename etc.
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Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students by YawningAngel on Saturday November 03, 2018 @09:22PM (#18373483)
You're right that the problem is unfamiliarity rather than a lack of features per se, but since every other GUI file manager 'just works' (I can intuitively tell how to do basic tasks) and finder doesn't I think it's a legitimate complaint.
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Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students by ryantriangles on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:26AM (#18351927)
I've always thought Miller columns were underused.
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Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students by androidgirl on Thursday November 01, 2018 @10:53AM (#18354423)
I personally love Sunflower on linux because of the columns.
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Re:The Missing Computer Skills of High School Students by copperx on Thursday November 01, 2018 @02:44PM (#18357087)
Does Sunflower offer column view like Finder? or is it just 2 panes? I don't see any columns in the screenshots.
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