When I look up “Dolphin windows” I just get the wii emulator (I am clueless)
https://apps.kde.org/platforms/windows/
Halfway down the page.
It would be more useful on windows than on linux too no?
Nautilus is way better
Having had to set up a KDE install recently I really, really like Nautilus GUI better. A little less customizable/extensive but it’s so much cleaner.
My only real beef is having like 3 separate areas for options. Hamburger menu, then the dots in the address bar, etc.
Yeah I agree about the options fragmentation. But yes, exactly. KDE in general feels very messy visually and functionally to me.
spent almost a decade straight on Win10 LTSC then switched to regular Win11 - I think Microsoft forgot how to make software. Vanilla edition is so bloated it is scary. Considering embracing Ubuntu.
I recommend Mint. It’s basically ubuntu with the controversial stuff disabled (Canonical’s snaps mostly, but I guess also any ads for their pro services) and with an extra layer of polish.
I’m happy with it for both the “I want something that works reliably” reasons and the “I’m an engineer who wants a free system that I can control and modify” reasons.
thanks. gotta check it out.
Check out Mint or PopOS! over Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is falling behind in the desktop experience, as well as their insistence of using their proprietary backend for snaps over flatpaks, and overriding tools that you expect to get the flatpaks and causing trouble shooting issues because you are expecting one behavior but getting another (not that hard to work around or translate once you know, but still a hassle.
Also, Mint and PopOS! are just great experiences and were top contenders for my personal desktop (dev, gaming, power user) switch from Win10 -> Linux. I wound up going with Arch/Garuda because it’s forcing me to learn far more about Nix than I’ve learned as a dev. I still might make the switch since Garuda can become unstable occasionally due to the way that the OS is “bleeding edge”, and forces me to troubleshoot the causes (I guess this is what I wanted to learn?) instead of doing personal dev, gaming, or desktop entertainment.
Thank you! I will try out both on my personal computer.
Dolphin is the best file manager of all time. Both linux and windows.
No windows 32 bit version??? Lazy asses, it’s just a checkbox! /s
So can Okular, but recently how well it works on windows has been getting worse and worse.
Does anyone else remember when you could replace windows ui entirely with plasma or did I hallucinate that memory
I used to run blackbox on windows xp. It worked really well too.
One of my favorite creators, MichaelMJD made a Video about this.
Just tried it but had a hard time adding my server as a network folder like I do on fedora
I like Thunar better. There was something really minor about Dolphin I didn’t like. Maybe it was the way it handled tags or something, I can’t remember anymore.
Thunar = 🐐
Although, the only reason I use it is because when i made the switch many moons ago, i was following this guy’s tutorial on setting up i3 and he recommended thunar. Never looked back (although, at this point i think its more about the ui than any functional difference)
Afaik the version is old?
nope
Hi fellow Mr. Clippit!
Hello!
This might have been just a me issue.
But I used to be a long time Total/Double Commander user on Windows Vista & 7. But sometime after I switched to Windows 10 it stopped letting me change the default file manager to anything other than explorer…
I use the split panel feature in dolphin a lot. the shortcut is F3 if you didn’t know already.
Thunar >>>>>>>
Booo
Thunar is the best
Doesn’t have dark mode == useless
KDM users when they’re asked to toggle between infinite GTK themes instead of between “light” and “dark” themes.
Does it need administrator access to install? If I can weasel that onto my work desktop without having to contact our support that would be great.
Please don’t bypass work restrictions
If somebody can easily bypass work restrictions, they probably aren’t enforced or implemented properly.
That excuse won’t stop them from being fired. Just because you can does not mean you should.
Knowledge is knowing how to bypass work restrictions. Wisdom is knowing not to.
Just because I shouldn’t doesn’t mean I shouldn’t.
IT admins (and those involved in a company’s security) should be fired for deploying under-configured or misconfigured Windows installations on computers.
Microsoft in general should be fired from computers - their security is absolute garbage.
IT admins (and those involved in a company’s security) should be fired for deploying under-configured or misconfigured Windows installations on computers.
I kinda want to see you argue this one. With pop-corn.
There is a high skill level needed to configure Windows properly in enterprise settings. Regardless, I wouldn’t be working for an organization that trusts any Microsoft software.
Keep your popcorn ready though, it’s only a matter of time before Microsoft loses the security battle - unless Microsoft makes gigantic strides in a more sustainable direction.
Irrelevant. The defense of “they should do better” will do jack to prevent the firing of someone that willfully circumvented company policy.
In some companies the restrictions are just knobs that were turned for the fun of it.
We do cloud native and they blocked WSL suddenly.
You can’t use Docker/Podman without WSL. So everyone had to bypass the restriction in order to be productive.
While I don’t think people should bypass work restrictions either, I get the frustration. One job I was at had some setting forcing browsers to always close tabs on close and reopen the homepage on open which was the intranet landing page. It was a pain.
Sometimes it is done for compliance. It is all about the CYA (cover your ass)
Fine I will just install Linux on my work laptop. Actually curious how long I could work like that before anyone noticed.
I used to work a food service job that had computerized touchscreen scales for weighing out products and printing out labels for them.
I learned that particular model was running an OS vaguely labeled as “Linux”, and it was on an ARM-based system. My biggest regret in that job was abstaining from trying to get Doom running on it.
Please bypass work restrictions.
Never said I would, but if I can install it on my work desktop via the Microsoft Store without the need of administration privileges then what’s the harm?
KDE has a proven track record and I’ve already got KDE connect on my work desktop to send files from my phone to the desktop without any issues from up top, plus I’ve spoken with my IT & Managers and got the ok for a Linux distro, but they do make the point of “what if someone else uses your computer” which is fair and is why I’m hesitant for them to switch me to a Linux work station, was thinking dual booting but not sure due to Windows history of wiping EFi boot partitions.
why would anyone else use your computer? honest question. and do they need access to your local files, or just a machine?
My environment is very much mixed in with shop workers, fitters or welders sit and eat lunch at people’s desk on their breaks, my desk is a common one as I’ve gone in on overtime shifts with people using my desk phone.
and yes, we have two lunch rooms.
That sounds like a security nightmare…
The company is probably to cheap to actually do security correctly. (Until they are ransomwared or need to get cyber insurance)
It might work in WSLg otherwise?
I thought this was a post about the Gamecube emulator. lol
