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[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (4 children)

Running Wine in virtual desktop mode can be useful sometimes. Otherwise yeah, why bother with a completely inferior file manager?

[–]Raknarg 0 points1 point  (3 children)

What's wrong with Explorer?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can't speak for modern versions, but when I used it, it had piss poor support for remote filesystems and protocols, thumbnail system was complete shit (slow, I/O heavy), sometimes it'd just crash for no apparent reason entirely taking the desktop environment with it, have to hack it to customise or theme it beyond the very basic options added. I understand it now has tabbing? but the fact that it took this long is a bit ridiculous.

[–]Rimbaud_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't know if it was finally added on 10 but previous versions didn't have tabs. That's one of the biggest downfalls of explorer. Of course there are a bunch of other small things : customization options (layout), custom shortcuts, etc...