midnight commander!
your bacon saver!
The best tux app ever

krusader hit this year

midnight commander!

I use Rox mostly.
I always install the KDE libs so I can have Konqueror. For a quick access to a shared resource Konqueror will have it done before you can get it mounted normally.

Firstly try emelFM and then emelFM2. You will not regret it. EmelFM2 is currently the best on the market. [Well, of course MC is unbeatable on certain points, but it is old and specific].

All are good but this one is my favourite. Nautilus that is

I voted Nautilus. With the advent of VFS and the ability to mount remote shares (be them SMB, FTP, SSH, HTTP) and have them persistent across reboots/session logins is incredible!

Konqueror is great, but MC is crucial.
 

Konqueror is great, I use it every day; but for me MC is crucial to administer any GNU/Linux box. Installing MC is roughly the 3rd item on my std. check list to make a new install usable.

Description
For those of you not (yet) familiar w/ MC: (from KPackage) Why MC:

• works w/ or w/o GUI
• "highlight & activate" navigation
  -- w/ keyboard or mouse
• 2 panels
• easy CLI access
• "fish"-ing
  -- i.e. connect either or both panels to a remote machine
• mcedit included

Text mode, i.e. no GUI necessary, is the deal-breaker -- I love the ease of reading of my GUI, & I usually fire up MC in a Konsole, rather than a tty/vc; but there are times when X is inconvenient or unavailable, & then I must know I can fall back on MC in its original state. I think that there is a very good reason why the Konsole "Session" menu includes MC & root MC.

I wish that all distros, especially the ones aimed at new users, automatically included MC. For me it is a near crime that Linspire (ugh) & SimplyMEPIS (my favorite) do not include it. My Q for them is: Who do you think is going to help your converts when they need it, and what do you think those helpers' favorite emergency tools are? </ rant>

Rox got my vote (due to size/features ratio) although I prefer Nautilus.

Kudos to the mods for removing the spamvertisement! :)

Flame deleted. If you didn't see it, well, maybe I'll post a similar one directed at another spammer sometime.

i challenge anyone to use MC for 1 hour, then compare it to any other app "out of the box." MC is so lean with just the right settings from the start for fast file management. it's great.

I like Krusader. I'm used to the two panel interface style. And of course, as a second choice, always Midnight Commander.

Voted for Nautilus. Evidence was a really nice file manager based on E17, sad that it's developement has stopped =(

But the best file manager was, is and will be /bin/bash =P

Konqueror
 

Konqueror is the best! :)

I worked hard to get the money to buy myself an iPod.
No doubt others worked hard to get it supported in Konqueror.
They did a great job!

Krusader is a twin-panel file manager.
Handles all the Kio slaves, virtual file systems, ftp, and more, in the manner of the DOS Norton Commander, but on steroids.

I use Kanotix because it installs Krusader out of the box. New version 1.70 is available from the site; will soon be in the Debian repository.

Edit note: See I need to update my profile. Changed from Mandrake over a year ago.

Rox. It's always the first menu addition I make for Fluxbox, and the first icon I add or change to Gnome/KDE.

File Manager of the Year
 

Although krusader is a serious thing, I'm a konqueror man.

Will probably be a close race again this year by the looks of it.

i use rox coz its fast and does what i need. I'm planning on switching tho'...

Konqueror!
 

I choose Konqueror!

Konqueror
 

I use Konqueror, not that I pick it over any others, I just use it because it is there. Not much file management going on here!

Nautilus with tree view for the nice looks
Tux Commander for light twin mode

I'm surprised at the number of people voting for mc.

If I'm in the cli I find it so much more easier to use the simple file manipulation commands: cp, mv, rm and so on rather than fire up mc.

I hardly use my chosen file manager, only when I'm in X and "can't really be bothered" mode, but IMHO its such an excellent bit of kit I couldn't not vote for it.

Interesting difference between us: I can't stand all the typing, even using tab completion, compared to the near "point & click" that mc gives.

It's a matter of taste.

Your not wrong there!

Krusader is the best!

Konqueror for heavy duty; Rox for light duty.

I voted for mc because I like the command line interface. Especially when I do a lot of work remotely. But I also like gentoo and konqueror.

You forgot to include Thunar

I really like gentoo.

Since when is Gentoo a file manager?

Are you sure you're in the right thread?

WHAT?!?!?! Are you kidding?!?! Gentoo (the file manager) is quite famous!! Besides the all-time-famous Gentoo distribution.

Linkety-link-link: http://www.obsession.se/gentoo/

That link seems broken:

You can still get the software ;)

Try this link.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/gentoo/

The deb package at Freshmeat is version "0.11.55". If you would prefer loading directly from the Debian repo's, version "0.11.46" exist in sarge, etch and sid.

Once I tried gentoo as my file manager I never looked for another.

You can, with Krusader. ;) (Hint: uses the same KIO Slaves. Of course you must love twin panel file managers.)

Kde :d
 

KDE has it baked into its very foundation. Its sooo 90-ies to talk about file managers.
Well, okay, konqueror.

Just thought I'd toss in FR (fileRunner). I once configured emacs to work like MC, but still FR seems easiest for quick processing of files.

That's why I don't like KDE. It's sooo windoze-like =P

Konqueror on this machine. Rarely use anything else.

There is really no way anyone can justifiably pick Nautilus over Konqueror. It lacks 90% of its functionality, its slower, its less flexable, and its difficult to extend (although the Python interface has helped.) You can even make Konqueror look like Nautilus if you want. I can understand people perfering the file manager that integrates with their environment but any other argument really comes up lacking.

Bobby

There are lots of things I have not been able to do with Konqueror that I can with Nautilus (like persistent network mounts over protocols such as ssh, ftp, http, smb, etc)

In KDE Konqueror.

On my laptop running IceWM Rox-filer flies.

Gentoo file manager is very good. But i do most of my work in the console. Who needs these?

definitely Rox, on top of jwm, small, fast and rich

Nautilus
 

im not a newbie and just use nautilus b/c i dont know anything else. with other scripts nautilus is definently my fav.

I'm a newbie who's been using Linux for 10 years. Who gives us that label.
Do we have to post something cool on this site to become a "leet hacker"
moderator, please moderate the labels, or change mine to "old school"

"Newbie" == "LQ Newbie"
 

You probably know that "Newbie" refers to your status w/in LQ, not Linux use.

Nevertheless, you have a valid complaint, one that could be fixed by changing the descriptor to "LQ Newbie". Why don't you make that suggestion in the appropriate forum? Tell 'em I sent you ;).

don't laugh, it's true :)