Yeah, no way I’m replacing ls with something that effectively combines ‘ls -ltrh’, ‘tree -L’, and ‘stat’. It appears the efficiency gain provided by this tool’s interface is a marginal improvement in terms of ‘characters typed’. It’s like combining a bicycle, scooter, and moped, but limiting yourself to a few hundred square feet. Confused. If this is a troll post, it worked, as I am irked.
On the other hand, I've had `ls` aliased to `exa` for a while now, and there's been no downsides that I can see. It accepts roughly the same flags and has slightly nicer (or more cluttered, depending who you ask) output.
If the goal is to get an idea of what an unfamiliar directory contains, I can see it being useful. It's less useful if you just want to list files, but exa has that too.
I think opensource.com is a content farm (not to be confused with the Open Source Initiative at opensource.org).
We joke that they are testing GPT-3 on that site.
Agree, it is amazing that the example PNGs show dark blue text and ... dark grey? ... on black. This is good how?