Alas! This one has an infinite number of features I don't need, and it doesn't do the one thing I'm after: open new windows.
You can technically get a new window by launching a new instance of the app, but it takes as long to open as Windows 10's Explorer. Plus you get a nagging shareware screen ;)
I want to say "close but no cigar", but this thing isn't even on the right planet...
Total Commander is so great i am even using on Linux via Wine after switched to it as my main OS (though i also use Double Commander, which is a Total Commander clone, but somehow it feels a bit off compared to TC, so i mainly use DC only when i care about the unix-specific details working).
You just sent me on a nostalgia trip, used to use this back in the days. Also anyone else remember the kind of equivalent Norton/Volkov commander from the DOS days?
that's how I ended up with Total commander - the line of 2-pane file managers go all the way back to 1993 for me to DOS 6.22 and those tools. Once getting used to this concept, doing anything non-trivial on filesystem is very effective compared to simple file browsing windows others use. All work can be done only via keyboard which is much faster compared to adding mouse.
You could say its a matter of getting used to given tool - but consistently when I watch colleagues doing similar tasks, I am so much faster, easily 2-10x depending on task. And thats folks with 20+ years of experience. Yet whenever I try to show my ways to others, nobody picks it up. Its like some mental blind spot, people generally are happy to learn more effective ways for their work, but not this one.
You can technically get a new window by launching a new instance of the app, but it takes as long to open as Windows 10's Explorer. Plus you get a nagging shareware screen ;)
I want to say "close but no cigar", but this thing isn't even on the right planet...