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Far Manager is a good substitute.

You might be a good potential user for Far Manager

Some other file manager instead of windows explorer might not trigger the exploit, assuming autoplay is disabled? Maybe?

If I'm forced to use Windows, I like to use Far Manager. It's a text mode file manager so I can stroke my neckbeard while I use it.

Take a look at ZTree.
Like TC but totally keyboard driven. I can't live without it.

I checked ZTree out and was thinking of some DOS comments, this being the GUI age and all.

Working with Total Commander your told up front that the program FAR is much better, has more support (plugins), and free http://www.softpanorama.org/OF...

So I checked out FAR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... and there it was; Norton Commander, yet FAR impressed me on it's first outing.

A, 7z x far.7z, then moved the output to a D:\MISGPRGS\FAR directory, ran FAR, right clicked on the display and it asked if there was something I wished to run in my Comodo firewall's sandbox, there was no delay the sandbox options was one of many options available.

- It knew of Comodos sandbox, meaning it hit the registry reading what it needed very quickly. Total Commander is actually pretty sluggish, to copy a large directory with TC is to find something else to do in the mean time, it's slower than windows copy. You can increase the buffers but it's not just it's copying that's slow; for it to hit the registry the way FAR did would I feel would take TC too long or even hang it for a bit.

I'm at a loss at the moment, I'd like a dual pane explore but right now just not sure which one.

Just saying if you like Ztree check out FAR http://www.farmanager.com/plug...

A great TUI based file manager for Windows is Open source Far Manager: http://www.farmanager.com/

It also has lots of plugins, and even things like drag / drop, allowing you to eject usb devices, sftp client, archive support, etc.

For Linux I just need: sudo ethtool -s p1p1 speed 10 duplex half [...] Now be really honest. What is more complicated? To follow 10 and more steps, involving 3 or more dialogs, or just open your terminal and copy & paste the one line command and press enter?

The problem I face when dealing with Linux once in a while is not using a command line. The real problem is finding out that for changing the network card's duplex mode, "ethtool" is used. Once that's done, figuring out the necessary parameters/switches is the easy part.

That's the advantage of a GUI - giving visual/textual hints for task you seldom do. And don't get me wrong: I hate click-fests. I appreciate scriptable tasks. My preferred file manager is the console-based FAR.

I use a mix of Far and Midnight Commander on my Windows desktops.

Their not necessarily in cahoots, they just were educated by the same system and cut their teeth on the same hardware.

These are the people that gave us WinRar, 7zip, and Farmanager. They know how to do this kind of low level programming, and a lack of capitalism probably means they did not spend a lot of time learning how to make things pretty.

There are many people who have "grown up" with those tools, so to speak, and are extremely good at them because they know all ins and outs, and even the more esoteric operations are already on muscle memory level. This isn't true just of Vim, but many other pieces of mature software, and not just on Unix, but elsewhere as well. E.g. I grew up on DOS and NC, and can't live without this thing in Windows even today.

Safari? You know where Webkit comes from? The KDE Konqueror browser. Yes!

It's all well and good, but Safari (and other WebKit browsers) today advanced beyond Konqueror, and I can run them on OS X or even Windows quite happily. Personally, I like Chrome.

The terminal and compiler? Gnu tools.

OS X terminal application is not a GNU tool. Did you rather mean bash?

Their base OS? FreeBSD was used as a starting point. It is not all FreeBSD, but a large part is.

Not the bits most relevant to the OS (such as kernel). Some parts of the userland, only.

iTunes. AmaroK not only has all of these features, it has even more.

iMovie. Completely blown away by Kdenlive.

Finder. Dolphin is way beyonbd Finder.

It's interesting to see that you only list OS X applications, and even then only Apple ones. I'm not qualified to judge on this specific list as I'm not an OS X user (I merely run it in VM for amusement). That said, on Windows, you get dozens of software titles competing in each of those categories, and I would be surprised if there was no competition in OS X, either.

In Windows, for file management, nothing beats the likes of classic panel file managers - I personally use the text-based Far, mostly out of habit (by the way, feature-wise, it's way beyond Midnight Commander); a lot of power users go for Total Commander etc.

For music (and, in general media) playing and organization, I've found that nothing beats the free J.River Media Jukebox, except the commercial version of the same product with more features, Media Center. It lets me do stuff like sync my players, but configure encoding settings for each one separately - so my iRiver, which can play Ogg Vorbis, I've set it up to only re-encode MP3s with bitrates >256kbps to size them down; and for iPod, it's also set to re-encode all Vorbis files to MP3. It's done once, and then it remembers the settings for each and applies them automatically whenever I sync or otherwise transfer files.

Personally, I don't have much liking for FOX. The main reason why Acronis is using it today is because in-house FOX fork has been ported to all kinds of things: not just Win32 and X11, but also Linux framebuffer (this is used for Acronis recovery CDs), and even EFI (this is fore special editions of Acronis products that are sold to hardware manufacturers to be embedded into sold hardware; imagine True Image restore module in your BIOS...). It's a pretty interesting port, too, because it tries to preserve look and feel of Win32 widgets (if you ever saw an Acronis boot CD, or Acronis boot loader, you should know what I mean).

When FOX was originally chosen, Qt was IIRC still GPL'd and thus unusable in commercial settings, and there was a need for a toolkit that draws all its widgets itself (rather than a wrapper on top of OS or another toolkit), for those framebuffer and EFI scenarios.

By itself, FOX is really just your basic C++ toolkit. I'm not aware of any special tooling existing for it, but even if it does, we just hand-coded all UI. So all you'd really need is a C++ compiler. Can't beat VC++ on Windows (I know it's not free, but there's a reason why virtually all commercial shops use it, and not e.g. MinGW, for Windows development); and, of course there's no contest with g++ on any other platform.

We used VC2003, later migrating to VS2005, for all Windows builds, and g++ for Linux/MacOS/EFI (several different versions, I don't remember the exact ones, but it was 4.x by the end of it). IDEs? Well, Visual Studio provides very nice debugging experience on Windows (duh), and our hardened and brutal Linux guys mostly just used gdb directly. No idea about how OS X team handled it, but I'd guess XCode.

Editor-wise, it was free for all. Some used VS, some Vim (including Vim/Win32), some Emacs (again, including Win32 port), a lot used the built-in editor in Far Manager with Colorer for syntax highlighting, and there were some even more obscure combinations.

And then, of course, there's the Far Manager, which is true to the original idea (Win32 console text-based with classic blue panels!), very powerful, extensible, and OSS. Then add the Colorer plugin for Far's built-in editor, and you get a really powerful mix - Colorer is extensible, too, with very powerful regex-based schemas, and so far is the only editor I know which can highlight all XSLT 2.0 constructs, and all XPath 2.0 within that XSLT, differentiating XPath axes, function calls, variable references, etc.

Unarguably the true descendant of Norton Commander, and it has gone open source recently!
Proper archive support, plug-in architecture, etc,etc.
http://www.farmanager.com/

I don't even consider touching any pc running Windows without a copy of this jewel.

Didn't know that Total Commander is a successor of Norton Commander; in fact, I don't think this is true.

Check out FAR, it is far closer to the status of "successor", same GUI, same philosophy, etc. It is open source now.

p.s. "far closer" sounds funny

I use linux because the software I use: emacs, LaTeX, gcc, is unavailable on Windows, at least without hacking or using some emulator that never quite works right

• "GNU Emacs for Win32."
• "MiKTeX is an up-to-date TeX implementation for the Windows operating system."
• "MinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs."

also, wow, file management is a pain in the arse using a mouse

how do people manage without grep, sed and awk?

Anything else you wanted?

When I discovered a similar bug in Windows NT eight years ago (incomplete copying a large directory tree, silent), I installed FAR and haven't bothered with using Windows Explorer for any important stuff ever since. It makes me glad skills learned years ago are still useful: I'm using FAR in Vista.

One word: FAR ( http://www.farmanager.com/index.php?l=en )

It can do almost everything: http://www.farmanager.com/reviews.php?l=en

PS: No, Midnight Commander/XNC/Krusader/Deco doesn't have a fraction of features of FAR.

One word: FAR ( http://www.farmanager.com/index.php?l=en )

It can do almost everything: http://www.farmanager.com/reviews.php?l=en

PS: No, Midnight Commander/XNC/Krusader/Deco doesn't have a fraction of features of FAR.

That smells like the steaming pile of dung that XTree for windows became.

This is FAR better :)

http://farmanager.com/

ACDsee, a well-known and, at one time, free, image viewing and organising app, supports metadata. It puts it in a "descript.ion" text file in each directory. This is an ancient DOS standard. It's still supported by a few Windows apps, notably the Far manager (a shareware clone of Norton Commander for Win) and ReGet, a downloader; both Russian.

In fact I find the "descript.ion" metadata so useful I stick with apps that use it. At my last job, a web news site, I organised out image library using ACDsee and this metadata to add notes. ACDsee also has a nice batch rename.

No need to invent a whole bloody new file system to find your wedding photos.