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by saiya-jin 1019 days ago
I've used norton since 1993 IIRC, the 2-pane model is properly baked in my mind. Now with tabs, it is magical. At least to literally all colleagues I've shown it. Lightweight, performant, stable.

Sftp client, great recursive file content search including archives, file comparison, editing files directly in archives, plugins etc.

The thing is, everybody is wow at efficiency boost but almost nobody picks it up afterwards, they go back to slow basic clunky multiple windows. When I see how slow they are (easily 10-20x, more complex stuff they have to use other programs ot cant do at all), even my otherwise calm manners become... less calm.

I've tried gui variants on linux when I was toying with ubuntu few years ago, unstable, slow, basic. I hope its better now.