Hi, I’ve been using Linux on and off for 20ish years, finally made the switch, and the one thing that has always driven me nuts is the file managers.

As an example, when I attach images to posts on websites, I get a nice window to popup to choose which file I want. This popup is ass. It only gives me a tiny preview of the file (images) that I have currently selected. There’s no way to change views to thumbnails, right click and open in an image viewer to double check that I am uploading the correct file, none of it. I have to navigate to the folder in another window and double check filenames if there is no preview. (This is getting more common because of webp images.)

I have a host of other complaints about the file manager on here and most I’ve come across, but this is the most annoying issue for me.

I am on Ubuntu Cinnamon at the moment.

To add to this since the file picker is something different. I dislike the file manager as well because of lots of reasons, but the biggest being that when I’m using thumbnails, it looks like all the files are only slightly aligned to a grid. Everything is off by just enough to annoy the shit out of me.

  • Nuuskis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It isn’t actually a file manager. It is called a “file picker” and has been a reason to rant as long as I can remember, so close to a decade.

    • mihnt@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Ah, I assumed it was just part of the file manager like on Windows. Either way, I hate it.

      • Nuuskis@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I know this doesn’t help but I think the file picker is by far the worst feature Linux has ever had. And our opinions are quite common among Linux users.

        • mihnt@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          1 year ago

          This is what I don’t get here.

          I get this context menu when I first click the file.

          Logically, I think, I can click visit file and it’ll show me a preview there, right? Nope.

          After clicking that it leads me here.

          Which again, logically, I’d want to click “Open With File Manager” but it’s fucking greyed out. (I have no idea why it’s greyed or if there is a way to fix it.) If that wasn’t greyed out I’d be just fine, but there it is. So I have to either copy location or just navigate there myself.