Which File Manager is best?

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Hi everyone, im newish and a UI user on; Qubes 4.3 & i like to use a lot of file management stuff, filing away files, editing them, working on them a lot & wondered what the best opensource file manager is that i need to do the stable job very well with lots of features etc as i currently using “Files” which came on Fedora 43 template & its rubbish, glitchy and has no features, worse one ever… :cold_sweat:

I want it as a repo as need to use it on a offline VM Qube (USB-Vault) type.
I do have repo FlatPac installed if that helps.

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I recommend terminal-based file managers, like yazi, lf or ranger. As for GUI file managers, I use Thunar in rare cases.

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how do i get Thunar?

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In Debian template terminal: sudo apt install qubes-core-agent-thunar
In Fedora template terminal: sudo dnf install qubes-core-agent-thunar

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Thanks, i did so but it looks very limited, can i get better than Thunar pls?