AFAIK Total Commander was fman's main motivation (IIRC the developer mentioned that on the bootstrapers.io forum). It'll be interesting to see how it evolves, but TBH i find Total Commander perfectly fine and i love how lightweight it is (...compare win10 calc with tc...) while providing a ton of features. And while i understand the (fman) author's point about lifetime licensing, i still prefer TC's lifetime license.

yep. no easy way (via "settings") to change the font and my old eyes need the default font size bumped a few times. I did the tutorial which is excellent and got me up to speed quickly! no way to search for a file, at least I didn't see it in the docs. there is a plugin for "fuzzy" search within a folder but not the entire drive. it's a great little utility but isn't done cooking and the $18 ask is a bit much as it is now IMHO.

it captures data by default... https://fman.io/docs/metrics at least he is open about this. still don't like that is it ON by default or that it's built in to the core code.