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What's the point of terminal file managers (mc, ranger, nnn, etc)?
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I only use lf in foot to have a preview of a file (image, text, pdf, ssl cert, everything with sixels, cat or the specific command) without opening or searching for that file first. It's faster to just use
lfto search for a file instead of opening every single one. Other than that I find using xdg-open, cp, mv, rm etc. is faster compared to using any file manager, probably because I never learnt lf's shortcuts properly. All GUI file managers I know are bound to their DE, eg. dolphin and nautilus, which sucks with a WM.Thunar and Pcmanfm are not tied to any DE.
I know SpaceFM as a DE-independant GUI file manager.