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?

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Hi @betty. Generally we try to keep things more focused on Qubes. But sometimes it’s hard to set the boundary. In this case I think it’s OK to keep the post to help people understand the various file manager options but you may have more luck searching for file managers for fedora or debian and install those.