probably a long shot but are there any lightweight alternatives to windows file explorer for 2024?
i’m stuck on windows for now until the time comes to grab a new laptop. so sick of the default one in windows 11 though.
Surprisingly enough KDE’s Dolphin
Nightly Installers on the bottom:
You’ll want the bottom x86_64.exe👍
Probably won’t be that useful for me, since I use Linux most of the time, but I’m thinking about new Linux users. If they could already start using all the KDE applications on Windows, the learning curve after switching to Linux would be much lower. I’ve also seen other KDE apps for Windows and macOS before, but had no idea this would also work with Dolphin.
There’s a few of them, the open source options include Double Commander, Files, Explorer++, Spacedrive (links files from multiple devices into one explorer), and Sigma File Manager. QTTabBar is an extension for the windows file manager which provides tabbed browsing as well. Here’s a list covering these and many others with links to official websites for each one: https://alternativeto.net/software/windows-explorer/?p=2
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thanks all - i was looking at some awesome windows lists on github but most were for file transfer clients not file explorers so i figured i’d ask. will check all of these out today.
Everything by voidtools is incredible and makes Windows slightly more bearable. It’s a shame Linux doesn’t have anything as good as it.
It’s free, but not open source though.
As we’re in the Open Source community here, the massive list of possible answers is suddenly rather short, I’m afraid. Explorer++ might be your best bet.