Nemo: I can't move to search results without the mouse. This is unacceptable in 2026... But at least it has Meld as an awesome file-compare plugin in the Software Manager. However, it has no audio statistics and can't view audio metadata in file properties.

Thunar: I can select search results by keyboard, but I can't cut and paste files from an external drive to the internal drive; for some reason "Paste" is grayed out. It has no "open as root" folder feature, but I can at least cut regardless in Nemo without root access.

Yazi: I can't even install it because sudo apt install snapd, which seems to be a prerequisite to getting it on here, is yielding:

Package snapd is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source

E: Package 'snapd' has no installation candidate

I had bad experiences with Double Commander and Dolphin on Windows; it was just harder to do stuff and the context menus felt lacking. Are they still worth trying?

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[–] 8 points 5 months ago (6 children)

I'd give dolphin a try. I know it can cut/paste across drives, I did that the other day.

However, I'm not sure about the search issue. I use my mouse heavily because it's faster for me.

It's always worth trying something you haven't used on Linux yet, and it's often worth trying something you haven't used in a while since updates exist.

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  • [–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    One more vote for Dolphin. KDE apps let you define custom keyboard shortcuts, so OP might be able to create one for focusing the search box

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    for what it's worth, i just did all this in dolphin with just the keyboard: keyword search in ~, navigated results, picked a range of files, copied to clipboard, navigated to a secondary drive and directory on it, and pasted those files.

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