File Managers in Linux

File Managers in Linux

The first thing I learned after Word Processing (AbiWord) in Linux was how to manage the file system in the My computer. 

Coming back from Windows background with so much clutter in my files and folders in Windows XP, it was a REAL revelation.

I never lost a working file in Linux but I have lost all the Window files.

That is why I never went back to Windows.

File managing is hierarchical (father/son, relationship) in directories and there are hidden system files (I never bother about them and they are stable and they are generally accessed by using a Terminal) and the user files, one owns.

They are in folders and in categories like Music.

1. Rox Filler

Simplest of it is Rox Filler.

It has 10 folders

1. Core (I do not understand)

2. Desktop

3. Documents

4. Downloads

5. GNUstep

6. gretl (I do not understand)

7. Music

8. Pictures

9. Public

10. Templates

11. Videos

12. There there are two files

Untitled.bak~ (unsaved) and FileInLinux-01.abw an AbiWord file saved.

That is all, I need to know and nothing more, nothing less.

 

2. Thunar

If I go to Thunar in Xfce, it is the same but core is in the bottom and not first with larger Graphic boxes or Folders.

bak file is missing but saved file is there.

 

3. Gnome Files

Gnome Files almost similar to Xfce but folders are organized in the alphabetical order and no priority is given to the folders and the text file named with Fxxx letter comes fifth in the order of 12 items.

 

4. Kate

Does not look at anything since my desktop is  in Gnome and gives a Graphic file manager with either open a new file or open an already existing file.

  

5. Krusader of KDE

Krusader of KDE, (it is the Killer File Manger) on the other hand opens, all the files in graphical command line format with a dot as in .bluefish (bluefish is an excellent command line Graphic Utility which I love  with Ruby, Perl, Python (2 & 3), PHP, SQL and many more).

Bluefish is the simplest of all and when I open my AbiWord file, it is s described, as a Abiword document as  49 </abiword> and it has 50 lines and leave the last line 50 for me to interact.

I type kill.

no response

I type killall

No response and I save it as file-02 and exit like this.

 </killall>

 

KDE Plasma

KDE is huge and it consumes Lot of Memory and and a strain on your CPU.

I just tested it!

Worse combination is LibreOffice on Plasma Desktop.

I hope KDE consider a Lighter Version of KDE!

KDE Plasma

Since I have 3 Editions of Gnome installed in my NUC, I decided to have a go at KDE Plasma.

1. It takes about 600MB to 1000MB install it. That is with or without KDE applications.

2. It has many plus points.

3. It organizes all the applications on groups.

4. It software center is a packed with all one needs.

It is better than Ubuntu, Flatpak, SNAP and RPM.

5. It gave me options to Install DBS Viewer a plus point since I am currently investigation DBS capability.

6. Visual effects are pleasing with large fonts with my failing vision, I probably have to adopt it.

7. Even AbiWord looks nicer on it.

8. It does not say it has finished installing or which one is currently active.

9. I had to look at the Gnome system monitor to see what is going on.

10. I wand to go to sleep whether it is installing them or not.