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The most clearest description of file explorer: Dolphin (?)
Like if Nautilus is any better
Or, like, Total Commander. A wild guess would be some strategy game.
Meanwhile, Midnight Commander reads like the title to a pornogram.
Once a couple employers ago, I got an email from IT admins demanding that I uninstall that "game".
The nautical theme also continues with Nemo
Dolphin, the total commander of nautilus!
Wasn’t it named after Norton Commander?
I mean, yeah, but then the same applies to Norton Commander as well :D
Or nautilus. My assumption is the files are in your sea not in their cloud.
Lumberjack or woodpecker honestly would have been better names since file systems are basically trees
If the file system is a tree, naming the file manager for someone whose job it is to destroy the tree seems silly.
Is that where
rangergot it's name?Krusader.
The application most likely to cause confusion among True Gamers™ who got fed up with Windows.
(PRO TIP:
dolphinis the KDE file manager,dolphin-emuis what you really want. PRO TIP 2: To defeat the PulseAudio daemon, shoot at it until it dies)Oh, a hybrid of dolphin and an emu. What a wonderful idea.
Jack is potentially the most sensibly named.
Is pipewire pipe or wire? Only the gods are allowed to know that.
Just remove the execute bit and then it can’t run. (Or overwrite the first 4 bytes with nulls if you want to permanently disable it)
WDYM "explorer", is that some weird name for a file manager?
You can explore file system, but how would you dolphin it?
I always loved the logically escalation with konquerer
It kind of makes sense. You are swimming the sea of misorganized random piles of files and folders you have created.