A Nautilus Sucks Donkeyballs Linux Rant

Paranoid Factoid@beehaw.org to Linux@lemmy.ml – 115 points –

Nautilus, the Gnome file assistant manager, sucks utter donkeyballs. Let us make an unordered list of the ways:

  • If the underlying filesystem changes, say a copy operation, the file manager view does not update without a manual refresh by CTL+R. This leaves the view in a stale state, presenting false file information to the user, who might never know until they do something bad. This is a showstopper bug that's been hanging around since forever.

  • Batch rename. Good luck trying to rename a series of files ordered sequentially by number, if the number happens to start with any number other than one. A sequence from 2 to x is impossible to batch rename. Because regex in sed never worked either. No, wait. It's always worked! For like, 50 years.

  • Why, when moving a collection of files or a directory within the same filesystem, does it actually perform a copy and delete operation, taking cpu and time, when the inode location could just be updated like mv does?

  • Thumbnails? Why do they take longer to generate for images and video than than the totality of the existence of the universe?

Nautilus is an unusable mess. If command line file utils were this bad, we'd never be able to reliably store and manipulate files. Who in their right mind actually uses this junk?

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Come to the dark side, KDE has Dolphin and it swims faster than any gnome could.

Dolphin has been one of my favorite benefits of switching from Ubunt to Debian! I didn't know how "plain" nautilus was until I met Dolphin.

I've been able to customize the file window to my liking and it's really nice !

Using a file manager without split panels feels like going back to the 90s for me now. You mean I have to open two different windows?!

Dolphin has split panels... Hit F3

Oh yeah that's what I meant, I'm so used to split panels in Dolphin now that other file managers feel old-school.

KDE gang rise up! Can't stand GNOME and its design philosophy, in recent times it seems like it's been trying its hardest to become the most off-brand macOS it can possibly be. Everywhere I look its more form over function. Urgh.

100% agreed. I personally hate the Appleverse, so Gnome just irks my gears.
KDE Nation, we are armed with Plasma!!!

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