I agree. I think OP should try another shell first. That will impulse the use of the terminal.
I'm using alacritty because it stuck and the updates are minuscule, but I've recently moved to fish and have it on desktop and server.
I think you're referring to the "file picker" window. i think qBittorrent is using Dolphin as the file picker and as everyone else commented already you can get the same behavior if you use the "Details" view. Go the settings on Dolphin and tick the Expandable option
Alternatively, you can add the Folder panel (F7) and have the same functionality while having a "Compact" or "Icons" for the files
My first was Ubuntu in the early 2000s, I think CDs were being distributed by the IT department in one of the faculties, then SUSE but Linux didn't stick with me at the time. In 2018 I installed Manjaro which helped me make the switch to arch. I've also got Debian on a server and fedora on a laptop
Gitlab will be down for a week (or more) due to server migration operates under a freemium model. GitHub is having weird Microsoft money making issues. Codeberg is the "non corporate" alternative and I see it being mentioned more and more.
I mentioned Scribus but I never worked with it. I did use MS Publisher and InDesign because mixing images and text in a document editor was a pain. I used it for creating "collages".
How about something like a page editor? You can create a page with various elements, and manipulate them. Have a look at Scribus (for Linux) or other apps similar to Adobe Indesign.
You might have answered the OP question, and a long standing mine as well. Gonna check this up on my setup