once again I find myself bashing my head against linux file managers

we have:

• Dolphin (silently breaks if not running under KDE)
• cosmic files (silently breaks if not running under KDE)
• nautilus (insufferably minimalistic)
• ???

@navi @lunareclipse thunar is pretty good yea . also there is the simple “not using a file manager” which has been great for me , the only thing i was using one for was for drag and dropping but then i found out about ripdrag and im using this oneliner

@fiore @navi @lunareclipse what i do because i use a lot of KDE programs but don’t want the full DE because prefer Niri is: i simply set XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE in the session (so systemd’s user environment as well as the dbus activation environment), and that makes it launch whatever it needs to run but no more than that

@mia @navi @lunareclipse yea that works if u wanna use dolphin . i really dont tho :P

@fiore @navi @lunareclipse it’s just hard for me to let go of it because it’s that good. even switching from konsole to foot is surprisingly hard because i miss things and the way mouse selection works just doesn’t feel right…

@mia @navi @lunareclipse terminal kdecel syndrome . im sorry mia . youre too far down the qt rabbit hole

@fiore @navi @lunareclipse i hate that qt is corposlop but everything else is so far behind

@mia @navi @lunareclipse 2026 is the year of the foot(1) desktop

@fiore @navi @lunareclipse i’m using foot most of the time except for when it doesn’t work…

and it’s also raised my standards for how much lag i’m willing to tolerate on a 12yo laptop

@mia @navi @lunareclipse meaning it lags very little ?

@fiore @navi @lunareclipse it does not lag and takes at most two frames to open when i press the shortcut (less if i use its server/client mode)

@mia @navi @lunareclipse yes !!!!! its so good . sososo good

@fiore @lunareclipse @navi dmenu /j

@nu @lunareclipse @navi wdym ? i am not using dmenu at all , just using fuzzel’s dmenu flag , but that just means it behaves like a simple graphical input selector

@fiore @navi @lunareclipse tbh i might do this. ive been trying to figure out what file manager to use on my new chimera install but i dont like the options and im doing fine with shell alone

@fiore @lunareclipse @navi i use my shell for most file operations even when im on full DEs now that i think about it

@lizzie @lunareclipse @navi i keep nautilus around but i really dont use it .. i just open it when i have to Mount and Unmount one billion drives and get smth from em

@fiore no it was just a joke, nothing is bad

@nu oh yay ^^

@lizzie @lunareclipse @navi its just faster 😭

@fiore @lunareclipse @navi how DARE you use software to accomplish tasks efficiently. one billion years of writing machine code by hand for you

@kirby if I followed the paranoia I would be using QubesOS

@kirby instead I’m taking meds for the generalized anxiety disorder