long spin icon when I open a folder with many files/folders like 1300...where I keep torrents.
I used xfe when on freebsd and it never seemed to make me wait that long, maybe was indexed? hmmm
Any suggestion?
I hate semi bloaty apps prefect lean n mean....but not a like command line enthusiast When I want gui file manager like gasp windows explorer.
Although i didn't completely understand your question, try with doublecmd-qt6, it loads huge folders quickly before resolving thumbs/etc.
This seemed goofy at first but thumbnail coverage kicks ass over pcmanfm.
thx!!
I think that pcmanfm is somehow discontinued as the whole LXDE therefore you could try pcmanfm-qt.
galaxy/pcmanfm 1.3.2-1 (lxde)
Extremely fast and lightweight file manager
galaxy/pcmanfm-gtk3 1.3.2-1 (lxde-gtk3)
Extremely fast and lightweight file manager (GTK+ 3 version)
galaxy/pcmanfm-qt 2.0.0-1 (lxqt)
The LXQt file manager, Qt port of PCManFM
I use nemo not sure how it handles thumbnails compared to others.
thunar - obviously?
I kind of omitted thunar, had a look now, seems to be slightly faster than pcmanfm.
Well how fast does ls work?
The drives also cache data so running a command a second time usually speeds things up. But at some point you are going to bang your head on the speed that the inode table can be read.
Even there some guy made a super slim version of ls :D https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/useful.html
With this occasion i also wanted to mention rox, a very slim but well enough featured file manager in puppy linux, but it doesn't longer seem to compile with whatever tooling used in AUR. This one works! https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rox-filer-hugeicons
And yeah inode cache gets you over half of the way through.