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In my experience this is the best non TUI orthodox file commander available on *nix machines.

The amount of dedication that was poured into it to make it as close to TotalCommander as possible is nothing sort of amazing.

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IMO it's the best (or one of the best) for Windows as well - because it's so feature rich and is free and open source in contrary to TC.

Any idea how it compares to Far Manager (https://www.farmanager.com/)?

Long time Far Manager and midnight commander/mc user. Just being at the terminal is good enough for me.

Freepascal/Lazarus with some compression code in C.

I agree, I use it on Windows and it’s an amazing piece of software.

how can it be one of the best if it's not even good? For example, it lacks a must have undo feature (just like TC), so you can't easily recover from accidentally deleting the wrong selection of files

I think the target audience for orthodox file managers are people that accept, or can live with, the consequences of irreversible file operations.

the target audience can continue to live dangerously, doesn't mean the app can't add this basic feature to be a contender

I am fascinated by your position. Why would it be a must-have operation? What's wrong with tools that take you as close to the machine as possible? We used to have tools that could manipulate the FAT on disk directly readily available!

And, IIRC, both TC + DC support deleting to the recycling bin. I know they do, because it's one of the first options I disable when setting them up on a new computer.

Because it significantly improves UI in the core area of file management (and the issue is undo, not just recycle bin, and it also covers e.g. renames etc that good file managers have)

How does undo move you far away from your machine? Any why are you using a GUI tool instead of living in the terminal, terminals are closer to the machine!

Think twice click once. I suggest you use that maxima or one day you will accidently delete yourself. And this is inreversal operation. ;)

Just like when I burn my pancakes. I so wish I could CTRL+Z IRL. Those files are gone. Adios. Please don't tell me you use "Recycle Bin".

Of course I use recycle bin. Why wouldn't I use a great tool for the job? It would be negligent not to, when it or similar is available on the OS I'm using.

Even this tool uses recycle bin. It may not have a ctrl-z to undo a delete, but it doesn't permanently delete unless explicitly requested.

Comparing pancakes to file management is an apples to oranges comparison.

These days almost every file I touch is either downloaded from somewhere or, if I wrote it, pushed to a git repo. Recycle bin is rendered useless.

Just like the garbage company in IRL... You place it in the recycle bin, but at the end of the day, it all ends up in /dev/null anyway...

I won't tell you to use the recycle bin if you don't want to, but DC supports deleting to the recycle bin if you're so inclined (Del/F8 deletes to recycle bin, you have to press Shift for "hard" delete)...

If only there were a difference between the physical world and a digitalworld..

(and of course I use recycle bin, it'd be dumb not to)

I take it you consider most UNIX utilities (cp, rm, etc) to be bad because they lack an undo?

Rm has needed an option "do what i mean, not what i say" [1] from some time. /s

[1] https://www-uxsup.csx.cam.ac.uk/misc/horror.txt

What alternative do you suggest, If I may ask without any intent of rhetoric?

Directory Opus is the best file manager on Windows

How does it compare to midnight commander?

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