What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)?
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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I use them for filemanagement on my server over ssh
Oh very good idea. I didn't even consider this
Genuinely curious what you did consider.
My daily driver. I hit the terminal a lot
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.
When I was a kid, it was Norton Commander
What is the advantage over using SFTP with Nautilus/Dolphin/… ?
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.