I'm looking for something basic to just browse my movie and tv show files etc.
So i need something light and simple.
Im pretty new to Linux so something that is pretty easy to get around with. As stated below my machine is pretty limited.
I'm using a limited machine. IBM Thinkpad T43 with Intel 2ghz processor and 2gb of Ram
Oh im using Xubuntu by the way
Take a look at gentoo
gentoo is a graphical filemanager for Unix-like operating systems. It is written completely in C, using the GTK+ toolkit for its user interface. All file system access is done through the GIO library. It's quite fast, and configured graphically.gentoo
You can also take a look at Nemo. To install, just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/nemo
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nemo nemo-fileroller
My suggestion is to try Marlin.
Marlin is a lightweight file browser built from the ground-up to be responsive easy to use, based on gtk3 and uses Gnome 3 technologies extensively.
Some key features of XFCE file-browser Thunar too are included to give it a certain slickness despite it being a File browser. Marlin uses 'extended actions' to manage files.
Features:
Tabbed browsing
Multiple-views
Single-click to open (default)
Configurable toolbars and interface
Plugin framework
Networking support (SSH, FTP, Windows share, HTTP and HTTPS)
Single click/double click to open file
To install it:
Open a terminal an run it:
sudo su
add-apt-repository ppa:noobslab/apps
apt-get update
apt-get install marlin
And enjoy it.
Nautilus is great but it uses more system resources than Thunar. If you go with nautilus, I suggest running the following command in 14.04 after installation to enable a better recursive search function:
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search false
To disable recursive search, just type the following:
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences enable-interactive-search true
Nemo is also an option.
