A file manager feels like an essential part of an operating system. In a blog where I talk largely about using terminal applications instead of GUIs, you might think I'd spend this article exploring some terminal-based file managers.
Not so. Spare me a moment of your time, friend, and I will endeavour to illuminate why you, master of command-line secrets, have no need for such a petty thing as a "file manager."
@luca I had not heard of that one!
@benjaminhollon @luca you hadn't heard about mc? Wow, it's one of the classics.
(thank you @Migueldeicaza )
@luca I think it was mostly popular among people who came from DOS and have been using Norton Commander on a daily basis, younger people have never used it and don't have that warm and fuzzy feeling about two-panel file managers I guess 🤷
@Migueldeicaza @sotolf
@m0xee @luca @sotolf right. I believe a big reason “nc” in DOS was so popular was the “walkthrough” app it came with - 2-3 minutes that explained the concepts. And we have never done that for MC.