• klangcola@reddthat.com
    105·
    2 个月前

    Can recommend, Dolphin makes life on windows slightly more tolerable. Kate for Windows is also amazing

  • mormund@feddit.org
    4710·
    2 个月前

    I know this is the wrong place to say this, but I really like the Windows Explorer. Dolphin is a good replacement, but it would be one of the few things I’d like to keep on Linux.

    • carrylex@lemmy.worldOP
      861·
      2 个月前

      I just updated to Windows 11 and oh boy has it gotten worse when compared to 10…

      The UI, useless spacing in between items, 2nd context menu, gigantic bars on top, the somehow missing create folder button, OneDrive Integration, “Pin to quick access” everywhere, freezing up when creating thumbnails, constantly somehow resetting the layout of the user home and I’m just getting started… But hey it got tabs now

      • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lolEnglish
        28·
        2 个月前

        I was a win10 user because I was forced to update from 7. So I got really annoyed when I saw the new context menu for dumdums. It’s useless.

        If I ever need to install windows 11, either on a virtual machine or for a family member, I run a script that returns the old context menu (and several others that remove a bunch of bloat and de-activate internet search on the searchbar)

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          8·
          2 个月前

          Ohh not totally for dumdums. The design of the old context menu is one of Explorer’s greatest weaknesses.

          When you right click that menu, every context application DLL listed in the registry needs to load. So if you have an end user with a bunch of context apps. mp3tag, smartrename,scan for viruses or even worse some dll that needs a network resource to init. that context menu can take 5-10 seconds to load on an old encumbered system.

          9/10 they just want to right click and open with or rename, so there’s a cheap menu with no dll loading and an option to load them anyway.

          I feel you, I set my win11 desktop to show the old style too, but the idea behind it isn’t bad.

          • ISOmorph@feddit.org
            6·
            2 个月前

            Wouldn’t the better idea have been to load specific DLLs on activation of a function then? Dicking over users that know how to use their OS for the sake of digital slobs seems unfair.

            • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
              4·
              2 个月前

              There’s a million different design problems in all of Windows. There’s probably a million better ways to fix the problem.

              I’m just saying that what they did isn’t without merit. And they did leave you the option to turn it off.

        • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          2 个月前

          I use Windows 10 with OpenShell so I can turn it into Windows 7. I definitely will never use windows 11 hahaha

      • apftwb@lemmy.world
        11·
        2 个月前

        Microsoft messed up File Explorer tabs. If you make a new tab, start a search, the close the tab before the search finishes, you break the URL/path bar text. You cannot see what directory you are in unless you click the path bar. The only way to fix it is you restart the application.

      • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 个月前

        At least on linux you have the choice. Somehow however, it seems so many people like to recreate or even worsen the windows experience. I guess Unixporn didn’t make it to lemmy, but half of those did not feel usable. Why would I want one inch wide gaps between everything?

      • Lembot_0004@discuss.online
        103·
        2 个月前

        Nah, who cares. We even have guys around who claim that they like vim. Just another crazy isn’t a reason to get torches. We save them for a real occasion.

        • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
          6·
          2 个月前

          like? I fing love Vim. It’s like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich made of sunk cost fallacy and Stockholm syndrome.

          I’ve spent years using it, so I know every (reasonable) key combination and don’t need my mouse* to wiz around even very large documents. It’s on every pc/server I use by default, it’s on my phone. I can run it on a server from a console window with no window manager.

          I get there’s a lot not to like, but it’s like 10% of my DevOPS superpower.

      • waigl@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 个月前

        Okay, I’m generally on the side if dolphin UI-wise, but when it comes to the topic of lagginess, it has to be said that dolphin, and in fact, almost everything using the kio infrastructure, is the one shitting the bed here. You’d think a bit of multithreading will keep the UI from freezing up whenever the underlying I/O has some minor hiccup (which can absolutely happen in practice with network filesystems or USB sticks in combination with large file transfers), but apparently dolphin can’t do that.

        • cygnus@lemmy.ca
          7·
          2 个月前

          Admittedly I use an NVMe drive but I’ve never had this happen once in the years I’ve been using KDE. Dolphin is so much snappier than Windows Explorer on the same hardware that it’s almost funny.

    • foggy@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 个月前

      Seconded.

      There’s a lot of reasons to hate Microsoft. There’s a lot of reasons to hate Windows 11.

      Their explorer is’t one of them. The new context menus when you right click anywhere is, sure. But explorer and notepad got righteous upgrades.

      • konalt@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 个月前

        On the context menu: I’ve been using Nilesoft Shell for a few years now and it’s been wonderful. It’s got all the options from Windows 10 plus a few more in the Windows 11 style.

        Edit: wrong link, fixed

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      5·
      2 个月前

      If it wasn’t for the bugs I’d whole heartedly love windows 11s explorer over 10s.

      But if explorer stops responding me my interactions one more time I’m going to commit a crime.

    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      The primary differences between Dolphin and Explorer are mainly in speed and the context menus for applications. (which is the reason explorer is more encumbered)

      Since I use context menus on my windows admin workstation, I wouldn’t want dolphin there and I sure as hell don’t want explorer in my NixOS.

  • TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
    21·
    2 个月前

    NGL, I didn’t realise it’s an actual Dolphin icon on the folder until I saw this post. I always have the Dolphin pinned on my taskbar but it’s teeny tiny so I couldn’t make out the symbol.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 个月前

      For what it’s worth, the dolphin face is a relatively recent addition. I wanna say three months tops.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    19·
    2 个月前

    I kinda dislike Dolphin, but I also know it’s very customizable and haven’t dig into the options, so it’s possible there’s a version of it I like that I haven’t found yet. If that makes sense.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukEnglish
      5·
      2 个月前

      Same. I try it every now and then and am constantly blown away with how it just seems to know my system and auto mounts things, and knows how to thumbnail images and videos without being nudged…

      …but I just can’t get over the clean glossy UI. It makes my whole system feel like a web app.

      And thus I always go back to Thunar or Dired because apparently cavemen just like to bang rocks rogether and that’s okay

  • apftwb@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 个月前

    I’m going to try to get Dolphin through security review at my company. QUICK everyone start listing reasons why my company should take on the risk of installing Dolphin.

    • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      2 个月前

      You don’t try company wide.

      Prepare a feasibility study on the merits on giving choice to power users without sacrificing security or increasing complexity. A multi departmental working group should be established to review the merits of the new platform, while a control group should also be established to monitor how existing solutions perform.
      Once completed a multi stage rollout plan should be compiled by a different multi departmental group to make sure all workflows are covered in the new system.

      • apftwb@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 个月前

        This guy corporates

        I have been down that path before with Obsidian and LaTeX (Obsidian was a success and LaTeX was meh). The first step is getting the executables white listed and Its always a PITA with our security team. I need to first convince them it is worth the study, which is always hard because they are not power users. Feature lists help. Win11 explorer being dogshit also helps.

  • Aeri@lemmy.world
    18·
    2 个月前

    When I look up “Dolphin windows” I just get the wii emulator (I am clueless)

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17·
    2 个月前

    Kde.org/apps

    You can run lots of kde apps on Windows and Mac OS. I personally use Kate at work since it is far faster than VScode

    There even is a konsole port in the works

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 个月前

        Looks nice, starred it so I might remember when I get the parts for my ThinkPad that (hopefully) will resurrect it (no screen, no booting, beeps that either indicate “motherboard failure”, or "failure of some other kind), CPU temperature control seems to work at least, one of the worst coil whine that seems to be temperature dependent -> this indicates me some kind of capacitor failure).

  • waigl@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 个月前

    I think I know this meme template from somewhere, but I cannot quite recall from where. Could you give us a link to the original?

  • Anti_Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 个月前

    I have to use windows for work, and Windows Explorer annoys the everloving hell out of me.

    What idiot thought that the “Home” folder and the User folder should be the different?

    And regularly, when “Home” hasn’t loaded I’m halfway done typing the address in the address bar “//someletters/adv” for example, it will decide to clear it to let me know I’m “Home”

    You might have made my life just a little bit easier.

    • eRac@lemmings.world
      4·
      2 个月前

      Another annoying one is that the address bar obfuscates the folder path if you start at Documents, Photos, etc. If I want to get to my user folder without a shortcut, it makes sense to hop to Documents and go up a level, but up a level from Documents is the useless Home directory.