Is there any way to replicate what Link Shell Extension does on Windows - allowing you to create hardlinks quickly by drag-and-drop, or using file context menu?

Currently on Windows I can either:

1) Drag the file from source to destination folder holding rclick, on releasing it in the context menu I select "Drop As->Hardlink"

2) Rclick source file -> choose "Pick Source"
Rclick in destination folder, choose "Drop As->Hardlink"

No consoles or typing required.

Meanwhile on Linux:
open console, type in ln, go to source folder, copy path, paste into console, go to source folder again, copy filename, go to console again, add filename to the filepath, repeat the procedure for destination folder, activate the command, hope that you copied and pasted everything exactly or the command won't work.

Are there any alternatives on Linux mirroring what Link Shell Extension allows to do?
My searches turned up nothing so far.

Dolphin can create symlinks by drag-and-drop in nearly the same way I described above, but there is no way to do the same for hardlinks, despite the underlying command which is being executed only being different by one flag. There is a feature request for this - its been ignored for like 10 years.

Gnome's file manager Nautilus can be convinced to do it.

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In MC, one first picks the source, next picks the destination, then selects link from menu, then confirms, very fast using keyboard whether or not in a GUI session, but a rodent can do the same thing also whether in terminal or GUI (I've never tried the rodent method).

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Rodent doesn't seem to provide any specific functionality. I found nothing in the user manual except for references to default ln command.

MC will probably be useful, if anything just for mass-renaming, but the issue is that since its terminal-based, it doesn't provide file previews which are sometimes needed for images.

This looks like a decent option, the problem however is that it does not replicate the needed functionality fully.
The hardlink is created in the same folder, so it can't have the same name, and it needs to be placed in the destination separately, and possibly renamed so that it would have the same name as original.

Is there any way to get the destination of a drag-and-drop operation from any file manager and transfer it to the script?

Another idea - currently the script is missing the destination parameter for creating the link command, so it just creates it in the source folder.
Would it then be possible to modify the script so it would take the destination variable from the clipboard buffer?

I have a different usage paradigm. I run 8 virtual desktops, an image previewer on one, and MC on others.

You can modify the script to do just about anything you want. You can invoke a folder-selection dialog (provided by something like the Yad or Zenity
package) to specify where you want the hardlink to be created, a text-entry dialog (from ditto) to give the hardlink a name, etc.