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> But if you've spent a few years on Linux, you'd be able to do many things faster on Linux than on macOS

This may be true, but the article explicitly targets people moving from Mac to Linux, not people with years of Linux experience.

I’m interested why you don’t like Finder. It does the job for me. What do you think it’s missing?

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Speaking personally:

* No ability to show thumbnails in folder icons

* No ability to use single click + hover to highlight

* Relative sizing feels way off - everything in Finder always seems to be simultaneously way too spaced out while also being way too small.

* Never seems to remember view preferences properly, and often defaults to confusing arrangements.

* Doesn't like to stay connected to network drives, despite any number of tricks I've tried.

* The usual cut/paste/delete operations being needlessly complicated to perform

I do prefer macOS overall, partly because I'm tired of having to constantly tweak and fix Linux whenever I try to use it as a desktop system, and because of things like iTerm2 and BetterTouchTool.

But I really hate trying to do any kind of real file management with Finder, and most third-party apps I've tried just seem to replicate everything I dislike about Finder.

I fixed the cut/paste/delete stuff here. https://github.com/rbreaves/kinto

I can't speak for GP, but I'd pay for Path Finder even if all it did was give me cmd-x to cut, and enter key to mean open instead of rename. It does a ton more, but those two are the killer features for me (Tabs used to be one too, but Finder finally got those a while ago).

I definitely agree with you on the lack of cmd-x for cut. However, you can do cmd-c to copy, and then cmd-option-v to move files rather than copy them.

Enter to rename and cmd-o to open was hard to adapt to when I moved from Windows, but it's second nature now.

Using the distinction of paste as copy vs paste as move, instead of overloading the cut metaphor is a better choice semantically. When you cut text or images from a document with ctrl/cmd-x the content is deleted immediately. It’s weird and inconsistent that in windows the files get greyed out and if you don’t paste them they... eventually look normal again when you put something else in the clipboard? Modifying the paste with option on mac is also consistenT with option switching between move and copy while dragging files.

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