far2l VS Scoop

Compare far2l vs Scoop and see what are their differences.

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far2l Scoop
13 252
1,670 19,797
- 1.8%
9.7 0.0
5 days ago 7 days ago
C PowerShell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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far2l

Posts with mentions or reviews of far2l. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-01.
  • what's a good Linux terminal file manager in late 2023?
    1 project | /r/linux4noobs | 27 Oct 2023
    FAR Manager 2
  • Total Commander
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2023
    I still use Total Commander on my Android phones/tablets.

    For MacOS, the closest ones are:

    - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/commander-one-file-manager/id1...

    - https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

  • Far Manager: files and archives in Windows
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Aug 2023
    Do you need to self compile? The Linux port (https://github.com/elfmz/far2l) ironically only provides macOS releases... Thank you!
  • What are some of your favorite Linux apps that you use
    2 projects | /r/linux | 9 Jul 2023
  • The Tilde Text Editor
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jan 2023
    I would then mention far2l project that aims to bring Far Manager to -nix systems: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l. It is cross-platform and does have a great built-in editor and viewer
  • What's your favorite file manager to use in Fedora?
    1 project | /r/Fedora | 14 Dec 2022
  • What file manager do you use?
    6 projects | /r/linux | 17 Nov 2022
    Oh, I didn't check recently - could you share the link about political beliefs. From what I know there are quite many developers right know and it worked flawlessly at least on openSUSE Tumbleweed https://github.com/elfmz/far2l
  • Double Commander
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2022
    Abstract:

    Marta is the greatest file manager for MacOS, by light years.

    Longer version:

    Before switching away from Windows, I was a long-time Far Manager [1] user. It is a great, great program far better than various graphical commanders. It had a set of killer features:

    1. Quick directories, press ctrl-1 and you are there

    2. No graphical cruft. All these tiny boxes and panels with buttons you see everywhere on the likes of Total commander, Double commander, etc, they are gone, none

    3. It is text mode. Hard to spoil a properly done text mode with bad fonts, tiny fonts, etc - especially if you can set them up yourself

    4. Folder operations. Open same folder in another panel, compare panels, selecting files, masks, regex, all done, all great

    5. Great archive support. Open archive from folder, copy from archive, all done all great

    6. Very, very capable build-in editor with code highlighting, and hex viewer/editor(!). I could edit savegames right from a file manager, imagine that?!

    I could go on, but nothing I have ever tried on GNU/Linux and MacOS came even close to it. I even tried to use ports of Far [2], but it is... well, far from smoothly supporting either platform.

    So I was really unhappy when using MacOS (there are few apps I hate as much as native Finder) until I've found Marta [3] recently. And Marta is truly great file manager for MacOS that even improves on Far in a lot of ways. Its author Yan Zhulanow is an extremely great developer who has put a lot of thought into the application, and it does everything that Far does (maybe sans a built-in editor), and it improves on it in many ways. Try it out.

    It is blazing fast, it is very well thought through from top to bottom, and it is probably one of the few perfect apps that leave you stunned after discovering it. It does have a relatively high learning curve to learn how to configure it and to learn all the hotkeys, but the result is very much worth it.

    [1]: https://www.farmanager.com/

    [2]: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l

    [3]: https://marta.sh

  • I am developing a Console file manager for Windows
    1 project | /r/commandline | 10 Jul 2022
    Not quite. It's still in beta though
  • Far file manager for Unix and macOS
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2022

Scoop

Posts with mentions or reviews of Scoop. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-04.
  • Scoop. A command line installer for windows
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Apr 2024
  • Scoop VS craft - a user suggested alternative
    2 projects | 4 Apr 2024
  • Managing python projects like a pro!
    2 projects | dev.to | 18 Mar 2024
    Scoop is a command-line installer for Windows, aimed at making it easier for users to manage software installations and maintain a clean system. It's designed with developers and power users in mind but can be beneficial for any Windows user looking for an efficient way to manage software. Basically it makes our life easier when it comes to software installation of any sort. Scoop support installation for large number of software. Check it out here Scoop.
  • bruhJustLemmeDownloadTheSdk
    1 project | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 11 Dec 2023
    Use a package manager! Assuming Windows (since it's the odd one out), get yourself some scoop then just scoop install openjdk. No need to navigate to a website, download bundleware, click next-next-next and accidentally install a virus like some caveman from 1997. This has been a solved problem since ancient times!
  • How easy is it to setup Neovim and Nvchad on windows?
    1 project | /r/neovim | 29 Nov 2023
    Should be easy enough, I installed neovim on my windows machine with scoop (you can even get nightly if you want), it's basically a one line install. You can also do a manual install if you want, but you don't have to. It took a little fiddling for me because I wanted to install scoop as well as all applications onto my D drive rather than my C drive, but nothing too crazy. I never got NvChad on my windows machine, but I do have it on linux, and siduck (the creator of nvchad) has given good instructions for installing even on windows, so i don't think it should be a problem. Also, there's a discord for nvchad, and siduck is pretty active on there if you want to ask questions. Good luck!
  • Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Nov 2023
    I update it with Brew on macOS and Scoop [1] on Windows (but I guess it is included in other package managers such as chocolatey).

    Of course, a built-in auto-updater would be good, but a packaged version is a nice workaround for me.

    [1]: https://scoop.sh/

  • Installing Scoop for all users
    1 project | /r/helpdesk | 27 Oct 2023
    So I tried installing scoop the "normal" way for both users then ran scoop install {app} --global as per https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/wiki/Global-Installs and got:Cannot find path 'C:\ProgramData\scoop\buckets' because it does not exist
  • How to secure JavaScript applications right from the CLI
    8 projects | dev.to | 24 Oct 2023
    There are a number of ways that you can install the Snyk CLI on your machine, ranging from using the available stand-alone executables to using package managers such as Homebrew for macOS and Scoop for Windows.
  • Scoop: A command-line installer for Windows
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2023
  • Using Scoop to Create a Portable Toolkit
    1 project | dev.to | 15 Aug 2023
    Scoop provides a wonderful foundation for creating a portable developer's toolkit on Windows systems.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing far2l and Scoop you can also consider the following projects:

mc - work repo

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

plugins-extra - These are highly unstable, buggy, incomplete plugins that are not included with Process Hacker by default.

winget-cli - WinGet is the Windows Package Manager. This project includes a CLI (Command Line Interface), PowerShell modules, and a COM (Component Object Model) API (Application Programming Interface).

windows-terminal-quake - Turn any app into a Quake-style toggleable app.

Shovel-Ash258 - Personal Shovel bucket with a wide variety of applications of all kinds.

gsudo - Sudo for Windows

WSL - Issues found on WSL

sfm - simple file manager

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

emacs-ng - A new approach to Emacs - Including TypeScript, Threading, Async I/O, and WebRender.

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)