mikeslr wrote: ↑Tue Jul 26, 2022 5:37 pm... I love rox. Would prefer a 2-or-4 pane option, but that absence is a minor inconvenience. See rox-sets, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=4282 and my take-away from instructions by williams2, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 909#p39586. I personally think that tunnel vision among Devs of the 'Big Boy' distributions prevents rox from being more widely used.
The above is from another thread related to docx wordprocessors, but I felt it would be worth a separate discussion on the merits and capabilities of the filemanagers we most popularly use. In particular, the majority are probably using Rox, pcmanfm, or thunar. Yes, the likes of xfe, nemo, nautilus (files), konqueror, dolphin, krusader, double commander, and commandline-based like mc are also being used, but primarily I'd like to focus on Rox, pcmanfm, and thunar simply because of the dev situation here where these are the most used in new distro creations here I feel (but no problem with posts about other filemanagers).
So, without bias or opinion in this first post, I start with a few questions (there are more I'll leave for others to add) for those who have opinions and knowledge of features, capabilities, resource usage and so on:
1. What is it you like of love about Rox filemanager?
2. What does it offer you that the likes of pcmanfm or thunar do not?
3. What does it not provide that these others do better?
It would be useful to eventually draw up a comparison table to quickly reveal the differences (including links to HowTos), pros and cons I feel (including dependencies since these effect distro build sizes).