GNOME Files (Nautilus) VS Thunar

Compare GNOME Files (Nautilus) VS Thunar and see what are their differences

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GNOME Files (Nautilus)

Files (also known by its former name, Nautilus) is the official file manager for Gnome. It has an emphasis on being intuitive and simple, and follows the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines.

Thunar

Thunar is a modern file manager for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

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2020-02-18

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2021-09-25

Gnome Files (Nautilus) New Operations Design | For GNOME 3.18

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to GNOME Files (Nautilus) and Thunar)

Thunar

File Manager

28 28%

File Manager

72% 72

FTP Client

24 24%

FTP Client

76% 76

File Management

37 37%

File Management

63% 63

File Explorer

21 21%

File Explorer

79% 79

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Thunar seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

GNOME Files (Nautilus) mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of GNOME Files (Nautilus) yet. Tracking of GNOME Files (Nautilus) recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Thunar mentions (4)

What beautiful Linux apps deserve more "marketing attention" for lack of a better term?
Thunar a blazingly-fast file manager with image & video previews, as well as plugins. Source: almost 2 years ago
How do you get nautilus to show the thumbnails? I'm on a chromebook using crostini. Debian bullseye (i'm sorry if that's irrelevant i am a linux noob)
I switched to Thunar because of this issue. It has very fast preview image loading, among other benefits. It seems well-integrated into Gnome, even though it is built primarily from the XFCE project. Source: about 2 years ago
Are there alternatives to dolphin?
Thunar xfce filemanager but works well in other DEs like plasma too. Source: over 2 years ago
How to make thunar remember previous session
Not sure how i3wm can help you with that. It would have to be implemented in Thunar itself. I would check Thunar's documentation first. Source: over 2 years ago