I used to use ranger, but have since switched to yazi[1] for speed and out of the box image support. (Ranger can do the same, but I think you have to set the preview_images_method[2]).

[1] https://yazi-rs.github.io [2] https://github.com/ranger/ranger/blob/bd9b37faee9748798f3970...

lf is similar (I switched a system Python version update broke ranger). https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

I have it integrated into zsh so the current directory is whatever dir I was in when exiting lf.