Forklift seems to be a promising alternative... But it also crashes way too often. Tried Commander One some years ago and also wasn't impressed.
By now I seriously miss Windows Explorer...
Has anyone had better luck than me finding a decent solution for the Mac?
File management is definitely something Apple has never done well. And they absolutely kept it out of iOS, for good measure. Sigh.
Path Finder user myself since it came out years ago, the Finder for me is just unusable.
Edit : Sorry, but after thirty years using it, I simply refuse to spell it macOS or whatever the cool kids in their marketing department want to call it next year.
Would love tips to get it to work if anyone has figured it out.
It's from the Norton Commander school of file management.
It's under active development, and the author seems pretty responsive. It's not gratis, but not expensive either.
I finally turned off "Preview Icons" in the normal Finder that gave a relativ performance gain displaying larger file lists and made the finder kind of useable again.
Just a few days ago I saw the finder on a hdd based installation (not ssd) and it took "ages" (like some seconds) to display the relatively empty applications folder.
I wonder if all new software is just approved via state of the art hardware and older Macs are left behind ...
This approach lets me arrange non-Finder windows, too, e. g. Terminal sessions, browser windows, or text documents.