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by mherrmann 886 days ago
Shameless plug for my more modern, GUI alternative to Midnight Commander, https://fman.io.
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I used this for a year and really liked it! The change dir by frequency (frecency?) (Ctrl+P and search), the command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P and search), and immediate type-to-filter were great features. Everything felt pretty smooth and stable. I only switched because I started spending more time in the terminal, and fman was getting a tad slow on my machine.

It was also my first exposure to a solo developer trying to make income with licenses, which at the time felt annoying, but now I understand completely. Thanks for making me more productive :) such a huge upgrade from the default OS file manager.

Thank you for the kind words and understanding. I'm happy to hear you liked it!
Well, among emelfm, gnome-commander, krusader, worker...
a for effort, but link to the terminal version of it if you want to call it an alternative
I rephrased my comment to make it clearer that it's a GUI tool, thanks.
Minus points: gray on gray, automatic updates, (custom build system ?). On mc you can configure colors.
Please explain, how is a GUI file manager an alternative to a CLI based one?
They're both orthodox file managers.