Hi, I’ve been using Linux on and off for 20ish years, finally made the switch, and the one thing that has always driven me nuts is the file managers.

As an example, when I attach images to posts on websites, I get a nice window to popup to choose which file I want. This popup is ass. It only gives me a tiny preview of the file (images) that I have currently selected. There’s no way to change views to thumbnails, right click and open in an image viewer to double check that I am uploading the correct file, none of it. I have to navigate to the folder in another window and double check filenames if there is no preview. (This is getting more common because of webp images.)

I have a host of other complaints about the file manager on here and most I’ve come across, but this is the most annoying issue for me.

I am on Ubuntu Cinnamon at the moment.

To add to this since the file picker is something different. I dislike the file manager as well because of lots of reasons, but the biggest being that when I’m using thumbnails, it looks like all the files are only slightly aligned to a grid. Everything is off by just enough to annoy the shit out of me.

    • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 year ago

      @Zeus finder is single pane.

      ah fair enough, i misremembered. i don’t think i’ve ever used a mac system for more than 10 minutes whilst giving friends tech support

      I just don’t get how they think that’s better. 😕

      i know, it’s crap. i guess at least on mac most of the users aren’t even capable of pressing f3 to open split view (not only because macs no longer have an f3); but i don’t see why nautilus has gone down that route. it seems like such an oversight. especially as it used to exist and they removed it

      • Emperor Palpapeen@mastodon.social
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        1 year ago

        @Zeus I use pathfinder for a finder replacement. Two panes. But ever since they went subscription I have been looking for alternatives. I hate subscriptions almost as much as I hate single pane.

        • zeus ⁧ ⁧ ∽↯∼@lemm.eeEnglish
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          1 year ago

          yeah i’m with you there. i understand why programmes do it, a one-off purchase often isn’t enough to support continued development and server costs, but i have never bought one in my life. i actually had bought pocketcasts pro, and then they went subscription only and i immediately moved to antennapod.

          topically, sync for lemmy has just released and everyone’s going wild over it. it’s a £16/year subscription. or £2/month…