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Yazi - Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Can't imagine using my system without this.

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[–] eager_eagle 37 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I can't believe no one mentioned this, but: remote access.

I spend most of my day connected to machines via SSH and yazi offers a great UX with file previews and all. Using kitty I even get image previews in the terminal.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

remote access

To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.

Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.

[–] eager_eagle 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've used plenty of sshfs a few years ago, but x11 forwarding is a compromise. The latency makes it painful to work with for more than a few minutes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.

Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do image previews work over SSH? I admit I've never actually tried it...

[–] eager_eagle 4 points 2 months ago

they do

[–] Amaterasu 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, do you prefer kitty or yazi?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are two different things. Yazi is a file manager and Kitty is a terminal emulator.

[–] Amaterasu 1 points 2 months ago

Ok, Dolphin would be the comparative here from KDE Qt but, since is made for GTK probably Nautilus is the one to be compared.