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Who are these for? People who use the terminal but don't like running shell commands?

OK sorry for throwing shade. If you use one of these, honestly, what features do you use that make it worthwhile?

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[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use them for filemanagement on my server over ssh

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh very good idea. I didn't even consider this

[–] tsz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genuinely curious what you did consider.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My daily driver. I hit the terminal a lot

[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I think -- though I was not one of them -- that that's how people tended to use OFMs in their heyday. Like, my "home" program, the program that I'm doing most other things from, is bash, whereas I think for a lot of people on DOS systems, it was an OFM rather than command.com.

[–] makingStuffForFun@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

When I was a kid, it was Norton Commander

[–] d_k_bo@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What is the advantage over using SFTP with Nautilus/Dolphin/… ?

[–] SomeBoyo@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

It's faster. Because I have to move directorys relatively often from different drives on my server and nemo seems to be moving the files to my local machine before moving them to their right location on the server.