You can get the same look&feel with FAR Manager: https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en

I am sure many people remember Norton Commander (or nc). Also take a look at Midnight Commander if you still like this.

that's how I ended up with Total commander - the line of 2-pane file managers go all the way back to 1993 for me to DOS 6.22 and those tools. Once getting used to this concept, doing anything non-trivial on filesystem is very effective compared to simple file browsing windows others use. All work can be done only via keyboard which is much faster compared to adding mouse.

You could say its a matter of getting used to given tool - but consistently when I watch colleagues doing similar tasks, I am so much faster, easily 2-10x depending on task. And thats folks with 20+ years of experience. Yet whenever I try to show my ways to others, nobody picks it up. Its like some mental blind spot, people generally are happy to learn more effective ways for their work, but not this one.

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A lot of people always go crazy when someone asks these questions and instantly praise Total Commander! You won't believe the fifth one...