Don't panic, I'm only kidding. Linux doesn't really need any more file browsers, it already has at least 32. What it needs are some more that are as good as the one that comes standard on Windows.
This seems to be an issue that Linux developers have been refusing to address for decades. As a Windows user switching to Linux I think it is probably the biggest issue that sends so many Microsoft refugees straight back to Windows. Most Linux file browsers suck...
This
is the process I went through looking for a good file
browser when I was trying out some different Linux distros. Articles like this
one proudly proclaim "there are 32 options for Linux file browsers"
but I actually tried out about half of them (the others were clearly
not what I was looking for), and there was only one I really liked - NEMO (Which is the default file browser on both Linux Mint & Linux Zorin).
There
was only one other file browser I liked (Dolphin, the default file
browser on KDE distros), but even that had an issue I would need to sort out before using it (it doesn't show my PCloud drive), and I thought most of the others were hopeless.
In
fact there were only about half a dozen that I even thought were as
good as the default file browser on Windows XP (Yes, XP from 2001!) but
as with many things, this elephant in the Linux room seems to go
unnoticed by most geeks.
The
fact that it was Linux Mint that developed the Nemo file browser,
thereby fixing the glaring hole that has made Linux all but unusable for
non geeks for decades, was the final evidence that convinced me Mint is the best
Linux distro.
The Nemo file browser is the main program that enabled me to switch to using Linux. Without this I'd be completely lost.
