Ubuntu Unity Reviews

Far Manager Reviews

1. gaurav dube

   · student at FCRIT · almost 4 years ago

   i started using this when i was in school. this was cool file manager+text editor it was all nice apart from the fact that if you don't understand any language apart from english then It will be difficult for you to understand it's advanced features like plugin's and all. i mainly used this for writing code.

   🏁 Competitors: there is no one who can compete with this vintage beast.

   👍 Pros:    This is very light weight file manager+code editor so even if you have old pc you can run this with full speed.|If you do competitive programming then this is for you this editor is so accurate that even sublime text fails in front of this vintage beast.|As name suggests file manger you can manage your files better than any other code editor's like clion,sublime text,visual studio code etc...|If you understand all features of far manager you will litrally get addicted to it.

   👎 Cons:    As most of the instructions are in russian or ukranian you might find it difficulty in start.|As most of the istructions for advanced features are in russian or ukranian you might find difficulty to install some plugins.

Ubuntu Unity mentions (5)

• Omakub – Opinionated Ubuntu Setup

  > Ubuntu out of the box is not a great experience. I personally went with Linux Mint, because it doesn't try to push snaps and honestly the Cinnamon desktop is lovely and gets out of the way, a bit like XFCE but in some ways more polished: https://www.linuxmint.com/ It's nice that I don't even need custom scripts, it's pretty good out of the box. That said, contrary to popular opinion, I actually liked back when... - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6

  Unity is back. An enthusiast resurrected it and now it's an official Ubuntu flavour again: https://ubuntuunity.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Rethinking Window Management in Gnome

  > I wish Unity didn't die Hi from Unity on Ubuntu 23.04. I am running the Unity flavour: https://ubuntuunity.org/ It uses the latest Unity 7.7, released earlier this year: https://gitlab.com/ubuntu-unity/unity-x/unityx I run it on 3 or 4 machines, one of which has 2 screens and one of which has 3. Works great, scales well, handles modern Ubuntu just fine. I use it with the Waterfox browser, which integrates... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Rolling release between Arch and Rhino(Ubuntu based)

  I'm sorry, but Ubuntu Unity takes the cake for the best distro website https://ubuntuunity.org/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Question about changing desktop environments

  Canonical dropped development of Unity in 2017 (if I remember correctly), but there is https://ubuntuunity.org/ which is not affiliated with Canonical. Source: about 2 years ago

Far Manager mentions (4)

• IT Pro Tuesday #250 - Optical How-To, Linux Website, File Manager & More

  Far Manager is a text mode tool that helps you manage files and archives in Windows, with color highlighting and sort groups. Provides a simple, intuitive interface for viewing files and directories; editing, copying and renaming files; color highlighting and sort groups and more. Multi-language, easily configurable and extensible via a library of plugins. Appreciated by Hel_OWeen. Source: about 2 years ago

• Why is does it say 61gb???

  That's alss why I consider FAR Manager to be the only legit Windows file manager. Source: about 2 years ago

• [List] Let's talk about the software you can't live without. Here is my list

  There's only one legit NC clone nowadays, that is Far Manager. Initially written by Eugene Roshal (of WinRAR fame), it meanwhile is OSS. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Contrarian here: What legacy software will they have to pry from your cold, dead fingers before you give it up?

  You'll probably like FAR Manager then. Source: over 3 years ago