I don't know how much of this is going on now, but in the early days, one could run a variety of linux apps in windows with the correct runtimes installed. this may be how WINE came about?
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Was it cygwin, or something? I vaguely recall running an X server on Windows so I could display remote Linux gui apps locally.
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There is also Krusader that might be worth looking into.
I use Freecommander with Voidtools everything for searching on Windows. it's nice.
No windows 32 bit version?????? Lazy asses, it's just a checkbox! /s
I love you, maybe my work laptop will be tolerable now.
It would be more useful on windows than on linux too no?
Nautilus is way better
Having had to set up a KDE install recently I really, really like Nautilus GUI better. A little less customizable/extensive but it's so much cleaner.
My only real beef is having like 3 separate areas for options. Hamburger menu, then the dots in the address bar, etc.
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Dolphin is nice, but Thunar is my fave.
Thunar is a little more clunky, a little less modern in design, but it doesn't hide things as much and I like that.
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Omg really? I am installing this on my work laptop
Oooh, since we're talking about Dolphin- today I had to organize image files on an Android device, and connected it to my pc via usb to do it. I noticed Dolphin did not use image thumbnails as the file icons like it normally does on local image files. Is there a way to make it do that on externally connected devices?
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