Which is Best TUI file manager

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  1. vifm

    Vifm is a file manager with curses interface, which provides Vim-like environment for managing objects within file systems, extended with some useful ideas from mutt.

    you could try vifm: https://github.com/vifm/vifm

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  3. nnn

    n³ The unorthodox terminal file manager

    nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn

  4. lf

    Terminal file manager

    LF. Has vi keybindings like ranger but faster and with async image preview. You may also need this or ranger's rifle as file opener

  5. jaro

    a highly customizable xdg-open alternative

    LF. Has vi keybindings like ranger but faster and with async image preview. You may also need this or ranger's rifle as file opener

  6. xplr

    A hackable, minimal, fast TUI file explorer

    I use xplr and like it very much.

  7. ranger

    A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

    I ended up using ranger-fm after evaluating a bunch of TUI file managers. I ended up picking ranger because it I can install it via pip from PyPI on any machine with a decently recent version of Python 3 and venv.

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