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by ags1905 1016 days ago
Total Commander is on a whole different level of refinement and optimization.

Double Commander is good, indeed, but has some rough edges.

DC uses some components that are made by different authors and that are not that flexible and users ask for features which are beyond what those components can offer. So this is a dead end since nobody is updating/adapting the components so the features could be implemented.

DC has only two listed active developers, one of which is the author and the other one is new and fixes mostly Mac problems. If someone knows Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE or is interested in contributing, it would be to the benefit of all the users. I imagine it is not a trivial task to keep this program running on Windows/Linux/Mac with only two people.

For Windows, Unreal Commander is also good. Also Free Commander, but it is the slowest of all the orthodox file managers.
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7839284023 1016 days ago
For Windows I liked Directory Opus (paid) the most [1].

I miss it daily on Linux.

[1] https://www.gpsoft.com.au/

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blooalien 1016 days ago
I used to use DOpus as a Workbench (desktop environment) replacement on Commodore Amiga. Probably one of the most powerful and configurable / customizable file managers in existence.
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nwellinghoff 1016 days ago
Looks neat but a copy costs a third the price of windows. Hard sell.
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RachelF 1016 days ago
Yes, TC is superb, almost 30 years old and still in development.

For those who want to take TC even further, there is the TCUP project here:

https://tcup.pl/news/

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