
Midnight Commander
Double Commander
Vifm
Krusader
Thunar
Polo
Caja
An unexpected gift. January 07, 2018 by Michael. One of the nice things that happened last week was an fman user writing in to say that 1) fman "is THE BEST SOFTWARE" (sic). And that 2) he would like to send me a $50 tip.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, fman seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 10 times since March 2021.
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A very simple dual-window view file manager. The only extra feature I saw was the search bar at the top that you can use to quickly access anything. However, it’s also really small in size and light on resources, so...
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My first donations were for daily-driver productivity tools: Min browser (https://github.com/minbrowser/min). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
I once devoted 2 years of my life to developing a file manager called fman [1]. In total, it generated probably 35,000$ in profits, so my income from the project is somewhere under 10 $/h. As software developers, our opportunity costs... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Shameless plug for my more modern alternative to Midnight Commander, https://fman.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Tracking Codegres.org since Nov 2022.
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GNU Midnight Commander is a visual file manager, licensed under GNU General Public License and...
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Double Commander is a cross-platform open source file manager with two panels side by side.
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Vifm is a ncurses based file manager with vi like keybindings.
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Krusader is an advanced twin panel (commander style) file manager for KDE and other desktops in the *nix world, similar to Midnight or Total Commander.Get your copy of the Krusader .
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Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.
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Polo is a modern, dynamic and powerful file manager for Linux operating systems, written in Vala. It attempts to fold in several drive/devices management functions similar to Windows Explorer, and offers several innovative display layouts.
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