FarManager
File and Archive Manager (by FarGroup)
QuickLook
Bring macOS “Quick Look” feature to Windows (by QL-Win)
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| FarManager | QuickLook | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 69 | |
| 1,686 | 16,147 | |
| 2.2% | 1.7% | |
| 9.8 | 3.6 | |
| 3 days ago | 8 days ago | |
| C++ | C# | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
FarManager
Posts with mentions or reviews of FarManager.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-15.
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IT Pro Tuesday #250 - Optical How-To, Linux Website, File Manager & More
Far Manager is a text mode tool that helps you manage files and archives in Windows, with color highlighting and sort groups. Provides a simple, intuitive interface for viewing files and directories; editing, copying and renaming files; color highlighting and sort groups and more. Multi-language, easily configurable and extensible via a library of plugins. Appreciated by Hel_OWeen.
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Why is does it say 61gb???
That's alss why I consider FAR Manager to be the only legit Windows file manager.
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Name the tools you can't live without!
FAR Manager
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Looking for alternative to Clover file explorer
The only legitimate Norton Commander successor is FAR Manager.
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[List] Let's talk about the software you can't live without. Here is my list
There's only one legit NC clone nowadays, that is Far Manager. Initially written by Eugene Roshal (of WinRAR fame), it meanwhile is OSS.
- C in Windows: console really (REALLY) sucks! Doesn't even have basic 1980's capabilities: to display text menus by positioning text on screen, change sectional text colors, draw basic shapes/2D graphs circles/rectangles. Thinking maybe I could learn Win32-API and make my own 80's style basic GUI?!
QuickLook
Posts with mentions or reviews of QuickLook.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-30.
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IrfanView
Always have to install Quicklook on my windows machines, too used to it on Mac
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Powertoys Peek - does this feature need to be included natively in future version of Windows?
yes
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PowerToys Release 0.70 with Mouse Without Borders and PowerToys Peek
I meant this one
I hope you can look at the features of QuickLook because like the guy above said, it's currently vastly superior :)
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How do you all feel about Windows?
There is QuickLook for Windows although is not as good as the macOS one: https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
- Preview exel and word without have it installed, like a pdf file, no edition, just to visualise.
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Whatever happened to Peek for Powertoys?
You can use QuickLook in the meantime.
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Lightweight, offline, documents viewer (mainly PDF, PPT, Word)
QuickLook is pretty useful. It is basically the Windows Version of MAC's QuickLook.
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File-Explorer that can display Readme.md files.
I've been using QuickLook for years, functions just like Preview in macOS (hitting the spacebar after selecting a file pops open a window with the content): https://github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook
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Photoshop shows different colors and my gradients are ruined, all of this happened overnight. But everywhere else, the file preview's colors are correct. Do you know any reason? Is this related to the Pantone thing?
Why does the Quicklook app show the correct colors and photoshop doesn't?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing FarManager and QuickLook you can also consider the following projects:
clifm - The shell-like, command line terminal file manager: simple, fast, extensible, and lightweight as hell.
PowerToys - Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
cuberite - A lightweight, fast and extensible game server for Minecraft
SylphyHorn - Virtual Desktop Tools for Windows 10.
vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
linux
notepad-plus-plus - Notepad++ official repository
qView - Practical and minimal image viewer
lively - Free and open-source software that allows users to set animated desktop wallpapers and screensavers powered by WinUI 3.
AutoEq - Automatic headphone equalization from frequency responses
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
Windows10Debloater - Script to remove Windows 10 bloatware.