[chuckdries]

Surely, such file browser can't be that hard to develop as a user space application, right? I mean there are explorer alternatives on windows, a plethora of GUI file browsers on linux, and I have no idea but I can only assume there's at least one finder alternative on mac. I wonder why this hasn't been done yet.

[yrro]

For a while nautilus had this, I believe it was referred to as "spacial mode". It wasn't popular and eventually it was dropped. Which was a shame because as a former Mac user I was really excited by the idea. I think though that I have a much different relationship with my files and folders across a dozen computers these days than I did back when I only had one Mac desktop... if nothing else there are a lot more of them and in a way I guess I feel less "ownership" of my storage. And so I am less interested in keeping things nearly organized. And modern operating systems have much better search features which means that careful file organization is less important too.

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

> I guess I feel less "ownership" of my storage.

Why wouldn't you when developers have the opinion that their way is the right way to do things and you're retarded if you don't let their software organize your life for you? No comrade, you can't install software directly from the vendor! You must use almighty package-manager and hope The People have deigned that software worthy of inclusion in the repo. If you're lucky it might only be a few versions out of date! You don't actually want icons on your desktop, just use the application menu we built for you. Our AI assistant will choose an appropriate time to automatically install OS updates and reboot your machine, citizen. If it does so in the middle of your work or when you really need to use it, that's your fault for not training it well enough!

[speedplane]

If no one has done it, it can’t be that easy.

[genericid]

Let's go further: If no one has done it, it must be impossible.