mikewalsh wrote: ↑Sat Feb 20, 2021 8:41 pmY'know, I don't know whether to be "amused" at this or to just say, "Hey! whatever floats your boat..."
I see post after post, week in/month out, declaring loud & clear that the poster simply cannot "get on" with JWM/ROX-filer, and "can't get anything done" with it.
This, like so much else in Linux, is a very personal choice.
I never was that happy with Windows File Explorer. When I moved to Linux, during my mainstream distro-hopping phase, 'twas the same story; I still wasn't really satisfied.....but at least the mode of operation was familiar! And then came the initial trial of Puppy... Like all noobs, ROX-filer was a bit of a shock; I asked several questions about its operation over the course of the first couple of weeks, and, as time went by, gradually became more familiar with it. One thing I'd originally liked the sound of in Windows was the "drag'n'drop" thing, yet it never seemed to function quite how I envisaged it ought to.....it just seemed "awkward", somehow.
Drag'n'drop works perfectly in ROX!
In the intervening 7 years, I've tried out several other Linux distros; some 'mainstream', others.....not so much. But one thing they all have in common.....and that's a 'conventional' file-manager which, after ROX, seem so clunky, awkward and just downright sluggish now. For me, it's the opposite tale; I've got SO handy with ROX over the last several years, I simply cannot see myself ever returning to a conventional FM again. I may have moved a LONG way beyond Puppy, hardware-wise, this last year, but I value an ultra-light, 'speedy' file-manager more than ever.
The only one that made me think twice was AntiX.....and that was due to ROX being one of the built-in, 'selectable' options by default. Summat I was used to.....but I eventually became dissuaded/disillusioned by the Synaptic package manager crap (yet again!)
To me, conventional file managers no longer make sense any more. They seem to be designed by masochists.....for other masochists..!!
Am I the only one who feels like this about ROX?
Mike.
No.
Rox is eccentric freak at first. But once you have learnt it, everything else is lame.
