I did some fuckery when installing my W10 LTSC dualboot, and I wiped a bunch of drivers including the network one. I downloaded all of them again from a USB after asking in the Windows thread but Mint doesn't have the network driver, so I can't use Driver Manager.
I used ranger before lf, so I get it, but it really helped me out a lot. It helps my setup is simple enough where mpv, kakoune, and aliases open 99.9% of my files. Lf just acts as a faster front end for coreutils really.
The one thing that slightly annoys me about ranger is that I can't get it to recognize
.pdf.xz extensions. All my archived PDFs are compressed to save a little extra space. For now I have to enter r then atril. (Atril handles decompression on its own.)
mpv can open archives, and I use it to open .cbz and .cbr files for reading manga as images. I also know there is a lua script, for mpv, that uses ImageMagick to convert pdfs to readable images too.
I'd rather just have the ability to load my PDFs in a document viewer that can automagically handle the .xz compression
If you use anything but mc you're a queer.
Can I vim keybinds it?
I just use bc like a normal person.
No, but it is an OFM, and that's another keybind muscle memory worth developing since it's a de facto standard on it's own.
I'm good, then. I'll check it out sometime but probably won't stick with it.
ranger can show two panes like Midnight Commander (or even more than two) but you're not forced into it which can certainly be useful for long-ass filenames
You can switch just about any OFM into a vertical split, in mc it's Alt+Comma. Granted, TUI OFM's are rather limited when Total Commander has shown what can be done with a GUI. Tabs, using the target panel as a viewer, and many more features that everyone's been copying in software like Double Commander. A TUI file manager is only good when doing terminal work, not for every day work.
I haven't needed to use a TUI file manager on a remote terminal session yet but am learning how to use ranger on the off-chance I won't be able to use SSH with Thunar or some other graphical file manager for whatever odd reason
IMO learning mc is a better idea since it's one of those unspoken standards with decades of legacy like vim that are used everywhere. Also, a big advantage of mc over ranger is that it's a CLI shell much like Norton Commander was. Meaning that you are always in the command line when using your file manager. At any time you can type and run a command, and if you hit Ctrl+O you hide the panels and see the terminal. I'm not sure ranger even has a command line passthrough like vim does.
I don't find myself using graphical file managers to do file management on remote machines but at that point I would expect you could use sshfs and then use any file manager normally or use sftp.
In lf you can do it like vim. :!command args
shell command args and !command args are the ranger equivalent.
kitty's graphics protocol works over SSH (but tmux gets in the way):
God forbid I end up in an environment where I can't at least have small, well-known terminal programs installed by someone else
S drops into whatever shell you have in /etc/passwd. It's not exactly the same but it's adequate for me.Yes I have heard about TRAMP and how it's a highlight of Emacs like Org-Mode and Magit
Yep, GPT. Might be a weird quirk with how rufus flashes the image? All my installation media has been created with dd in linux.I thought that was my mistake as well, so i double checked. I had disabled legacy boot and even when I re-enabled it my boot media bitched at me about not launching as UEFI. Also, Artix is the first time I've ever not had ISO mode work for writing an image. Rufus has to do it in dd for it to partition the USB correctly
Would you check if your drives are GPT just for the sake of my curiosity?
>not emacs
