most of the russian programmers i worked with use this. Not sure if it's taught in university or something.

Orthodox file managers seem to be very much a thing across the Eastern Bloc.

I moved from England to Czechia in 2014 and was amazed to discover almost everyone used them. My first job in a Windows company, it had a site licence to Total Commander, and it was preinstalled on all machines.

When I told them I found the Windows Explorer to be perfectly fine, people genuinely gaped in amazement at me as if I said I chose to type with my feet or something. But I do. It's very keyboard-controllable, and was fast and efficient until MS started to cram the ribbon UI into it. Since Windows 8 it's been destroyed.

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lofaszvanitt 5 days ago | parent [-]

Mazochist :)

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lproven 5 days ago | parent [-]

:-D I honestly don't mind it.

I used the Windows 3 UI, complete with File Manager, until 1996. I didn't mind it at all. But I thought the Windows 95 Explorer was an amazing tool when it was launched, and as soon as Win NT got Explorer with NT 4, I switched to it.

I have never been unhappy.

I can tile 2 windows side-by-side in moments if I want that old source-and-destination layout. It works absolutely great.

I tried Total Commander, and Midnight Commander too, and they don't do anything I can't do in seconds anyway. I really don't get it. It's not that I dislike them, but I am perfectly happy with the replacement.

I am not saying anything is wrong with the OFM model but when it went away in the OSes I used 30 years ago, I didn't miss it.

	▲	lofaszvanitt 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		+power user