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I can't believe how terrible the Finder interface is. I've never understood why they don't fix it. Are there people who like it?

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I use Linux on my workstation, Windows at work, and Mac on my laptop. I don't get what's so terrible about the Finder. If anything, it makes you miss column view in other desktop environments (and space to preview!). [An aside, regarding Open/Save file dialogs: dragging a file into an open dialog is great, and neither Windows or Linux have been able to do copy that functionality. The best you can do is to copy and paste a path.]

I've asked this before and I've never received a list of grievances which led me to conclude that people are just not familiar with Finder.

Have you used ranger, Linux's command line visual file manager? You might like it. Navigate directories/files with arrow keys, space to open/view, ton of shortcuts for eg copy/paste/move/rename etc.

You're right that the problem is unfamiliarity rather than a lack of features per se, but since every other GUI file manager 'just works' (I can intuitively tell how to do basic tasks) and finder doesn't I think it's a legitimate complaint.

I've always thought Miller columns were underused.

I personally love Sunflower on linux because of the columns.

Does Sunflower offer column view like Finder? or is it just 2 panes? I don't see any columns in the screenshots.

I keep hearing this, but I've never had even the faintest idea what's wrong with it. Are there obvious deficiencies I'm just… totally missing?

No, it's fine but the idiom for going up a level is unlike every other file manager and it's totally baffling if you don't know how to do it.

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