(Addendum) Re: replacement or supplement for Nautilus

[Gary J. Kirkpatrick]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 7:20 PM Ken D'Ambrosio <ken at jots.org> wrote:

> > Good call, Bret!  I'll second Caja -- works like a champ.  I *THINK*
> > you should be able to just install it with
> > apt install caja
> > and kick the tires. It'll install a boatload of dependencies, but disk
> > is cheap, right? ;-)  Or you can flat-out run MATE (as I do), but that
> > does require either some finicky work on your part, or a re-install.
>
> D'oh.  I should've mentioned that MATE exists precisely for reasons like
> your disenchantment: it was a fork of GNOME 2.X, because the GNOME folks
> were changing things a bunch for the 3.X release, and users weren't wild
> about all the features that were going away.  It's used fairly widely --
> the Mint folks have it as one of their primary UIs, and Ubuntu folded it
> in for its own release a few years ago, as well.  It probably sees a bit
> less development than the newer/splashier UIs, but basically, if you
> were satisfied that GNOME 2.X was "pretty darn good enough", as I am,
> you'll like it.
>
> $.02, YMMV, etc., etc.
>
> -K
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Gnone 2 was just fine, in fact, I preferred Unity however.

garyk
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