This is why Linux will never win the desktop userbase

This is why Linux will never win the desktop userbase.

Windows is already implementing tabs into their file explorer and Linux can't even view thumbnails.

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>Windows is already implementing tabs into their file explorer and Linux can't even view thumbnails.
Welcome to 2005, microcuck

I'll bite.
>Linux can't even view thumbnails
This has to be bait famalam desu

It's not just file explorer though it's literally all programs.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

What did he mean by this?
Literally everything on my machine has thumbnails, just like your Windaids.

>muh tabs
literally the most overrated ui paradigm
windows confirmed for literally soy tier

It can be a very handy feature sometimes, but it's not like it's a must have for programs.

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was it the default for your distibution?

both windows and linux are for faggots, mac is the best there is not competition!

kys

>already implementing tabs

>take a look at the calendar
>oh, it's March 2018
>finally implemented tabs in the exclusive file browser on this shitty Pajeet-OS

Since I use arch, no.
You seem to be missing the point about linux distros in general though. It's not about whether or not it comes preinstalled on your OS, it's about customising it for your own needs. GTK is cancer, so I chose KDE as my DE because of Qt. I don't have to stick with the default if it's crap. So your point about me having to do it myself is bad because that's the entire point of a majority of linux distros: customising your OS to fit your needs.

Did you know there is an operating system included on your hardware with even more customization options? here's the manual: software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/39/c5/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd.pdf

The majority of people use tools to save time and achieve things that are impossible without. If a tool comes preconfigured with everything that's needed to use it efficiently, it will be preferred.

It either shows thumbnails everywhere by default, or it's in a less usable state.

>implying it's hard to install and configure everything
I literally used to waste about a day just to install and configure a Windows installation on my machines. With Linux I need about the same amount of time.
Also,
>what is kubuntu?
You honestly sound like you've never used a Linux distro before in your life. This is why distributions exist, distros that do feature preconfigured software.
Depending on your distro, it will show thumbnails, or it won't.

You must be retarded.
If you want to have that as a default, just use manjaro kde edition or kubuntu or kde neon.

Arch doesn't have any defaults. There isn't even a file browser by default.

As in, the tabs not the thumbnails LOL

>Has a dedicated porn drive

Open that bad boy up user, we wanna see.

Why do you need tabs in every single fucking program? Depending on what software you choose, I'm pretty sure you could do the same on Linux. A lot of the programs I use also have tabs. As I said, you sound like you have never used Linux before.

I haven't been the person you've been arguing with about pointless shit, I'm simply pointing out tabs is more than just for file explorer which people wrongfully assume.

My bad user.
>pointless shit
I do agree with you on this one though.

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pic related

... oh wait, I can even have tabs for different apps, not just for the same apps.

It's videos of your mom

My entire point is, that if it's necessary to configure something before it's usable efficiently, it's not useful for most people.

I wasn't an attack on your operating system choices, but the fact that the gtk-file picker does not show thumbnails is a major bug with no people willing to provide a default fix.

And yes, configuring Arch is hard. Not for you, me and many others on this board, but for most people.

Can you read?
If you don't want to configure stuff just use manjaro KDE edition

sounds like they almost caught up with dolphin

again... point missed

>I wasn't an attack on your operating system choices, but the fact that the gtk-file picker does not show thumbnails is a major bug with no people willing to provide a default fix.
I understand that, but you should direct the blame towards the retarded GTK devs who actively don't want to add thumbnails to their file picker. There is a fix for it but it's not officially supported.
But as I said before, Linux has many distros to choose from. Some are preconfigured for the average person (see Ubuntu and Ubuntu based systems), and others are a pain for most people like Arch and Gentoo. This is why I think it's a bit unfair to compare one OS to dozens of distributions of Linux that can be configured in many different ways. Kubuntu would be perfect for solving both the file picker problem and the availability problem, but the same can't be said for Arch Linux.
My point is that functionality varies from distro to distro, therefore it's unfair to compare Windows to all Linux distros in general, because the choices are so broad.

> My entire point is, that if it's necessary to configure something before it's usable efficiently, it's not useful for most people.
> If you don't want to configure stuff just use manjaro KDE edition

No configuration needed. You get your precious file picker and everything just works. This is what I recommend to linux starters

Stay mad, GNU faggot.

BeOS called, they just wanted to say that you still haven’t caught up.

That UI is pretty awful, tho.

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>implementing tabs into their file explorer
I don't use Windows and I haven't had it installed on any computer since Windows 98 was popular so I'm not that familiar with it.

Are you actually saying that tabs in the file manager hasn't been a standard basic feature since forever? I'm not entirely sure exactly when Thunar, Nemo and all the other file managers got this feature but it wasn't this year or last year. The same goes for thumbnails, not sure if you're referring to a cli based file-manager like midnight commander (which is pure text so it doesn't show thumbnails) or if you're just confused.

thank god everyone asks you.
The general approach is probably finding some website like this and choosing the distribution that looks the best from those pictures. Or they are given Ubuntu 12.04 from their workplace or whatever. They likability of getting the least painful OS is very low, even tough I agree that it probably won't be Arch. I also agree that in this particular case, it's mostly the fault of the GTK devs.

>tabs is more than just for file explorer
No shit Sherlock. I'm not sure what your point is though. Everything that needs tabs has had it on GNU/Linux more than a decade. Firefox has tabs. Konqueror has tabs. Calculators don't have tabs because it's not really something you need to have there.

Windows catching up on some area it's decades behind isn't really news. But it is a good thing, people use that pile of spaghetti code proprietary mess and it's great for them that they are getting some improvements.

>has 1741x998 window size
>can only display 4 images
Kek

>not using total commander
fucking scrub

likability->likelihood

>has set zoom level to max, thus only 4 image
retard

>can't even figure it out two lines
back to 4th grade pls

KDE has thumbnails and file explorer tabs and has had those for a long time. KDE even lets you have windows become tabs of other windows.

I bet stallman commented underneath that

"You mad bro?"

I would generally recommend Ubuntu or Kubuntu for noobs, and I think a lot of websites do a good job at showing off the most user friendly distros out there. I think it also helps that some PCs ship with Ubuntu so that the general public can get to know the Linux environment better.

I think that screenshot is fake. Also Stallman would never use non-free garbage like google+.

Yep. I've also got zoom level to max there and my 3x4k monitor setup makes GNU/Linux scale things so they may look really big on poor mans resolution monitors.

You want to see 1.5 TiB of gay bear and daddy porn?

The things this board bitches about i never even noticed... i wouldn't notice if you didn't tell me... But my god, it has a thumbnail view? Whoa, i guess i better sacrifice all of my hard work, security and knowledge so i can switch to Windows... how could i ever have lived without a thumbnail view.

i'd rather have a shitty file explorer than sharing most of my life story and info with a greedy, overgrown, and quite criminal corporation...

you'll still need to open two windows if you want to do lots of copying and moving files. You don't need them for basic navigation

that is not to say tabs don't have a place. In an IDE or browser it's still better than to have a gajillion windows open... but in a file explorer?, nah...

>blames the kernel for no thumbnails
how dumb are you

Have you ever tried opening an nfs or smb mounted folder with about ten thousand images in and viewing them all with large thumbnails? Windows handles this without issue, but on all linux file explorers I tried, they crashed before they had even finished generating thumbnails.

fffs it looks so fucking ugly

ah, much better!

wait, not really....

Windows 7 m8

>Sour grapes
>Practically any other desktop OS has that
Wut

KDE4 had that.

I'm still waiting for the size column to show folder sizes and not just file sizes...

Not true. I do it all of the time on my SMB server with pcmanfm.

~2500 images, nautilus 3.26. no crash, but ~500mb ram usage. do you have enough ram?

File picker in Gnome works fine. What's the problem?

I have 32GB.

But what does that and actually look like? In the rare instance that I managed to get thunar or nemo to not crash the thumbnails were small enough to not be usable.

You have to be kidding me, this has been in Haiku since the first R1 Alpha release.

Ah, you have to set the size of the thumbnails to a larger size in pcmanfm.

I could swear Linux used to have this as well. In Xfeces, I think.

I think I've been using tabs in the file manager for about 10 years now (not generally in the CLI, just when using a GUI file manager).

Thumbnails for like 15 years. You must mean the GTK file picker dialog in particular that is the maymay that Sup Forums Wintoddlers have come up with as a reason to not use Linux; the QT file picker doesn't only have thumbnails, it can zoom them and even do zoomable thumbnails in a detailed list or tree view.

bait/10

it's not very efficient with spacing between the images.

and the zoom levels suck.

the windows explorer is superior in that regard.

I think Thunar had it since some version a while ago, yea.

Spacefm, Dolphin, Krusader, PCManFM and surely more had tabs for years, though.

Some of the WM's can tab the file managers themselves.

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It does both have this feature and just now, Microsoft is implementing this feature into Windows 10.

if this isn't bait I've got news for your mother friend, she has a very very special child

First time i saw them was in Linux Mint Cinnamon in 2016.

newfag