superfile - A pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager

What's the big selling point compared to ranger, nnn, yazi or broot?

It’s pretty fancy.
- I like fancy
I haven't used any of the 3, but from a look over them superfile looks a lot more user friendly and has a nicer overall look.
Edit; the install process is rough though, complains about missing glibc but searching for that package in apt doesn't show anything promising. It also seems to require some kind of third party font that isn't included? I gave up lol that's too much for me to deal with.
- Glibc is the gnu c library. You wouldn't just download that from apt. I'm surprised your Linux distro doesn't already have that installed.
- I had to install Golang and build it myself to make it work with my version of glibc. But in the end the themes aren't rendered properly. In other words, proper Linux experience.
- Seems it's been reported https://github.com/MHNightCat/superfile/issues/96a, and the PR to fix it looks like it was merged, so you should be able to run it soon
Or nnn for that matter. I will test it anyway.

Those who don’t know Norton Commander are condemned to reinvent it.

Not written in rust, yuck! 😆

/s !/s
Go is pretty cool, better than R
- Why would you even compare Go with R though?
How else is it going to fit inside of 25kb? Can they even make rust executables under 1GB?
- Not sure where you got the 25kb number from.
  This tool is written in go and is a 7.8 MB compiled binary.
- Did you mean 1MB? With correct settings, you get under 1MB Rust binaries and with even more compression using upx it gets to 300KB, probably less for much simpler applications. Rust applications aren't that big of a deal as people make it to be; within reasons off course.

Why is it making network connections when I run it?

the hero we need
Good to know. How do you test if a program makes network connections? Do you just open Wireshark and look at outgoing traffic?
Did you check what the connections are about ? Maybe it is only checking for new updates ?
- It wanted to download a zip file. Apparently it was a theme. But, I’m not letting a local file manager talk to the internet randomly. If I want to update it, I’ll update it myself. Or, at least provide an option to enable it on first run.
  Uninstalled.

Ah, Midnight Commander, how have I missed you.

Looks great, I'll give it a bash

Lovely little utility.

Shut up and take my money.

Feels like dired and mc, but way more stylized and cool.

It looks like midnight commander with some upgrades

I love mc for its sftp/ssh capabilities. It makes it so much easier to do remote admin/support.
- Every time I install Windows the first thing I download is total commander. I can't function without it.

Yes. I do like that.

"pretty fancy" or "pretty, fancy, and ... "?

@lemmyreader Looks quite snazzy!

How does it look like in a proper 80x25?

Linux user. Installs fancy gui. Uses terminal for file management.

/Use your own meme format.

This looks super cool, but I've been using midnight commander for so so long.

Oy! You rick rolled us.

Thanks for the share!

I've always liked tui file managers, broot is a pretty cool one as well.

It has a font requirement? That's just weird..

Not really? It has alot of icons which are all driven by nerd font. Also you can basically use any font you want, neard just addes some extra glyphs

Looks very cool!

I like nnn

awesome

That name tho... Maybe could have chosen a different one.

Nah, its easy to remember. Its a good name
What's wrong with it?
- Try saying: "I'm a (the name of the project)" out loud, and let me know how that sounds.

This file manager made me ditch nnn, very well done!

care to elaborate why? aka give some details on the advantages of superfile? for how long did you use nnn?
- It had some functionalities that nnn did not have like displaying processes or favourite directories and such. In the end I got back to nnn because I read that superfile had internet access plus the fact that I use a graphical file manager for things that nnn or many terminal file managers can not do with extensive plugins.

Commenting so I can grab this later