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Really? I haven't had any issues. What was wrong with the file explorer.
That being said, my system is base Fedora plus a few extensions.
I've had a thread listing most short term issues here: https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/152231/Nobara-Gnome-is-just-a-terrible-experience
For the file explorer it mostly boiled down to the fact that every time I searched something, which is mandatory since it does not have a "jump to" feature, it would very likely crash.
You were using a niche distro maintained by a single person and encountered problems? Shocking.
To be fair, I used Nobara myself for a bit until I got tired of suffering from the problems GE was creating himself. But regardless, experience on something like Nobara is not a fair way to evaluate Gnome. Try it on actual Fedora or something else mainstream that isn't constantly fuckering around with all kinds of shit and breaking stuff.
I'm not sure what he could've done that affected the file explorer to such a degree? And obviously that was just one extreme example of many other problems I had. I don't think he removed basic functionalities that I require, I am pretty sure that's just Gnome being so hell bent on being puristic that they just don't ship with it, which breaks my workflow entirely without offering any sort of replacement steps.
And if his stuff breaks so much, why does KDE just works? I only have / had two issues since then. First one was that Dolphin just crashed instantly, which was a known Dolphin bug and required me to manually create the thumbnail folder. The second is the inability to drag & drop out of Firefox, like my finished downloads can't be dragged into a folder anymore - and I know this was a feature from my previous distros (namely EndeavourOS & Manjaro). So, if it was caused by GE, then surely there would be all sorts of things broken with KDE too, right?
I'll test this stuff out of curiosity later tonight!!
It occurs to me now I never searched for anything through the explorer.
Can I ask how you usually quickly jump to a specific sub-folder if you don't type in the letters of the folder name?
I usually click around the gui like a ham-fisted animal
I search in the terminal.
The tasks are separate for me. I usually launch the explorer at pwd to do my clicks, and close it.
That seems very convoluted to me. Let's say I have a mod folder for a game, somewhat deep folder structure thanks to Wine and such, containing hundreds of mod folders and sub folders. I download updated mod files for one mod, how would you quickly reach the corresponding folder and copy the files into that? I typically have a shortcut to the mod folder in my gaming folder, so that's somewhat quickly to reach. I'd then go into / through the correct subfolders by typing out the letters contained in the folder names and then just copypasta the corresponding files. Is there a better way than that without losing track of things?
What does that have to do with my comment?
Hmm. This case comes up for me regularly. I usually have a hidden file on level lower than my home directory that is linked to the directory in question. I then launch nautilus, and drag and drop as needed.
If it happens often enough I create a bash script that automatically launches nautilus at that location.
Is it better? Prolly not, but it's how I do it 😅
That's similar to the shortcut I mentioned, but wouldn't really solve reaching the corresponding sub folders within the folder structure. It would only work if I'd threw all the mod files in the same folder, and pray that the mod authors never actually rename their mod files and that I never have to remove any specific mod. I tried that once, it wasn't a good idea. :)
Oh yeah, I usually mod games like WoW or w.e. so the file structure lends to it being easily modded.
Yeah, that's as far as I know usually just graphical mods, mostly of the kinky kind.
It gets more complicated when you look at mods that add functionality through script mods, with various mod dependencies, update breakages, etc.
Games like the Sims, or Bethesda RPGs, which are highly moddable and where you install hundreds or even thousands of mods & assets.