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What's wrong with it? I'm currently using nautilus as my file browser on hyprland and it's more than servicably
I don't really use a file browser that much anyway so I might not be the best person to comment though. Tend to find it quicker and easier to move files around from a terminal then any file browser for everything except choosing a file for something
Tbh there’s been a known issue for like 10+ years where the file picker doesn’t allow for gallery/thumbnail viewing, or really any kind of file list viewing options aside from the absolute basic file list. So like if you’re someone who is uploading images to a website, hope ya named the files in a very specific way cause wooooh. XD
Above anything else, that was the primary reason I switched to KDE Plasma.
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/File_Picker_meme
Apparently this did actually get fixed somewhat recently but my distro doesn’t seem to have the fix yet so 🤷
If that's the only reason for switching couldn't you just install kde's file browser on gnome though? Or any file browser for that matter I don't think it forces you into Nautilus
I tried that but flatpack apps kept using the Gnome file picker anyway, there were some flags for some of them to change it but having to do that for each app felt like too much of a pain ^^;
I think you might just need to set your xdg default no?