On 2023-03-09 18:58, Per Jessen wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
Per Jessen composed on 2023-03-09 17:32 (UTC+0100):
Anyway, very entertaining discussion - especially that it seems to divide people into "love it" or "never heard of it".
That's oversimplified.
The nature of most discussions here.
Still, only very slightly simplified. Sofar, we have one "love it", (I'm not sure where you fit in yourself?), one "have heard of it" (Liam) and otherwise "what?".
People love it because they took the time to discover how blazingly fast and efficient using one can be. There's good reason the term orthodox was applied to them.
Discussions of "love" and "how fast" reminds me of my highschool days. (no pun intended). Back then, nerds were busy working out if RPN calculators were faster than non-RPN ditto. The true nerds were busy booting up the mini-computer.
copying files with 'mc' is comparable to using rsync. It is very useful for copying or moving, say, photos from one directory to another, without having to type names, and yet, not firing a GUI browser like Dolphin. And it does copy files faster than dolphin or almost any other GUI. dolphin, on the other hand, is better for copy/move when you need a preview of the photo or document in order to know if it has to be moved/copied. For admin work, 'mc' can view or edit text based files: logs, scripts, config files... Good for browsing several directories and looking inside files for the information you need. It can do a search of files in trees, including grepping for contents, then for example do some operation on the resulting list of files, be it copy, move, edit...
I suppose various GUI file managers have adopted functionality from them, but I've almost never even opened one of those.
As a sysadmin, I work in an environment that is virtually all text, frequently over remote VPNs. I.e. usually slow. I see zero use for any OFM - most often unavailable. I may be prejudiced, but for me, OFMs are primarily for hobbyists.
'mc' works fine over a remote and slow connection. You may not need it because you are used to your own methods, but it does work fine.
In the office I certainly use Konqueror and Dolphin - for the usual office stuff. Spreadsheets, documents, PDFs, graphics, music, whathaveyou.
Of course. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)