On Thu, 9 Mar 2023 at 09:29, Per Jessen <per@jessen.ch> wrote:
Judging by the wikipedia page that Carlos kindly dug up, an OFM is text based.
No, not at all. I did not know the term until I moved to the Czech Republic. My first landlord is a computer hobbyist, runs Windows and uses a tool called Total Commander. He loves it, and was amazed that I'd never heard of it. https://www.ghisler.com/ He asked me what I used instead of it on Linux. I said that I didn't. He was shocked. He considers the Windows Explorer to be unusable, and still used this weird old tool that looked to me a bit like a Windows 3.0 File Manager. In my 2nd job in Czechia, a Windows shop, I discovered that all machines in the company came with Total Commander pre-installed. The company had a site licence. _Everyone_ used it. It is huge in the Central European market. A few people use different but very similar tools. There are loads of Linux ones, e.g. https://www.linuxlinks.com/orthodoxfilemanagers/ I don't get it. I don't feel any need for them, and I never usually use them at all. I am happy with Nemo or Thunar on my laptops. But yes, they are very much still a thing and even today widely used and loved by thousands, maybe millions, of people. My Czech techie friends all use such tools and were really shocked when I told them that I had never even _seen_ such a thing in the UK techie community, not since the Amiga days and Directory Opus. https://www.gpsoft.com.au/ Which some Amiga-to-Linux migrants miss, too. https://alternativeto.net/software/directory-opus/?platform=linux The "OFM" seems to be a tool that people either love, or have never even heard of. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053