Somehow I expect a “GUI+Mouse is clearly better and thus your suggestions are worthless” response :-P
I wish people realized that there are vastly different possible approaches to different tasks and that one can be a lot less disappointed/stressed/angry by accepting one may have to learn a different paradigm once one has chosen to (semi-)commit to a new piece of tech…
Frankly: You come across less as “I am missing these features in many Linux file managers” and more like “I tried the default filemanager of my Linux distro and am angry the UX isn’t identical to that of Windows”. That’s not going to garner you much sympathy. Of the things you listed, I’d only consider a “preview” pane (that I’d rather not have, because of the security implications of having a separate potentially vulnerable parser that may receive less dev attention when issues are found) and maybe a “recent panel” (Not sure what one needs that for, I’d rather my system not track my actions so blatantly easy to find) actual features, and, yeah, quite a few Linux file managers can do something like those, obviously.
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