> Finder is unbelievably bad compared to Nautilus
Whats so bad about finder?
Whats so bad about finder?
MacOS is my favourite by a mile, but there are some major warts, though the finder isn’t my major gripe.
The tabs. First of all, they're Safari-style tabs and Safari has awful tabs. And then there's a preference called "open folders in new tabs instead of windows". Open up a Finder window, open Terminal and run `open /path/to/directory`. What happens? Directory opens in a new Finder window.
There's no way to have Finder remember what size a window should be. There's a bunch of tricks that people post online of how you can have Finder remember a window size but they don't work. It might register it on a folder-level but then you run `open /path/to/directory` and it opens up a postage stamp sized window (even though it should open a tab).
And where the hell is cut and paste?
One interesting thing I’ve noticed is that people don’t seem to bother to look at the menus anymore: one of the first things I’ve always done with a new application (ever since Windows 3.1 on a Pentium 90) is open the menus and skim the menu items to figure out the basic functionality available.
My experience is the other way round: it took me several minutes and much frustration to find a way to type a folder address in Finder.
Open a folder with images. How on earth do you switch to visible thumbnails?
And more like that.
These things should be intuitive and easy to do.
It's really easy, or am I misunderstanding you? View -> as Icons. It even has a keyboard shortcut. Or press space bar while with the file selected.
It's a bit embarrassing that Apple doesn't support an entry-level feature like that, but otherwise Finder has been steadily improving for the past few years.
CLI makes it better and if more graphical view is required then Midnight Commander on Linux/Mac or Total Commander on windows.
More about finder - why it doesn't show the whole path? It is like it was intentionally made not to trouble people with filesystems.