Exploring the Yazi console-based file manager
Tutorial – Yazi
This fast and flexible file manager offers command-line speed with some GUI-like conveniences.
Text-based file managers are so fast and flexible that even if every Linux user ran 3D desktops on state-of-the-art hardware, they would still play an important role in every Linux distribution. A great proof of this fact is one of the latest and most promising members of this family, a young multiplatform project called Yazi [1].
There are at least two excellent reasons for using Yazi in this graphics-first age. The first reason is that Yazi is really fast. Sure, processors are powerful and RAM is cheap these days, but a file manager that is light on resources is fully usable even when your computer is performing a resource-heavy task, like ray tracing. A text-based file manager can also serve as a precious disaster recovery tool when things go bad.
Another reason to try Yazi is that it narrows the usability gap between GUI file managers and legacy command-line tools. For instance, Yazi can display thumbnails of images and other files that are not plain text, instead of merely listing the file's (often unhelpful) name.
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