Liam Proven wrote:
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.
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.
It's quite amazing. I wonder if it might depend on one's professional career path. I've worked primarily with mainframes, but since the late-90s, AIX/HP-UX/Solaris were also part of my daily life, later on Linux too of course. It sounds like those OFMs came out of the DOS/Windows world, something I used for gaming and to run my 3270-emulator on :-) -- Per Jessen, Zürich (15.2°C) Member, openSUSE Heroes (2016 - present) We're hiring - https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Heroes