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It's a heavily GenX-coded tool. If you never used Norton Commander there's no point really.

Depending on where you're from you might have used another orthodox file manager. For some reason they've been very popular in central and eastern European countries.

For example i've worked three Polish gamedev companies and in every single one of them most people (including people who weren't even born in the days of Norton Commander) used Total Commander (it is GUI-based but the shortcut keys and overall layout are almost the same).

(FWIW Notepad++ was ubiquitous too)

From what I've seen at the time Total Commander didn't stick unless the user was already exposed to NC or its clones. People starting afresh with Windows 95 couldn't be arsed to use anything except File Explorer.

I use EmelFM all the time, but despite being "orthodox" it doesn't use keyboard shortcuts anywhere close to NC/MC's.

Midnight Commander was coded by a Gen Xer, but Norton Commander was coded by a Baby Boomer ;)

As in culturally coded. Say MS BASIC was also written by a boomer but most users were Gen X.

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