David Both is an Open Source Software and GNU/Linux advocate, trainer, writer, and speaker. He has been working with Linux and Open Source Software since 1996 and with computers since 1969. He is a strong proponent of and evangelist for the "Linux Philosophy for System Administrators."
He has written articles for magazines including, Linux Magazine, Linux Journal, and OS/2 Magazine back when there was such a thing. He currently writes prolifically for OpenSource.com. He particularly enjoys learning new things while researching his books and articles, building his own computers, and helping his grandchildren build their computers. He has found some interesting
and unusual ways of problem solving, including sitting on one computer on which he was working.
David has published five books with Apress. Four solo works, “The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins,” August 2018, and a three volume self-study training course, “Using and Administering Linux — From Zero to SysAdmin,” released in December, 2019. He has also written one book with co-author Cyndi Bulka, "Linux for Small Business Owners" that was released in 2022.
David currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his amazing and supportive wife, Alice.
He can be reached via email at LinuxGeek46@both.org or on Mastodon at @LinuxGeek46@linuxrocks.online.
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@ Andres Gomez and Bradley Haggerty, you are both correct in that both Thunar and Nautilus can do tabs. Those two file managers are so much alike that I would expect both to have the same features. Thank you both for pointing out this fact.
As has been mentioned by others, the amount of space allocated to each file manager in this article is very limited. I am working on more articles that will present a more detailed view of some of my personal favorite file managers but neither Thunar nor Nautilus is among them at this time. Perhaps you two would like to write reviews of those and submit them here for publication.
As for Ranger and two or three other file managers that I have not heard of previously, I have now and have already tried some of them for myself.
One of the things I really like about writing - and the training classes I give - is that I always learn more because other people know so many things that I do not. But that is why we share - OpenSource - our knowledge with each other, so we can all learn.
Thanks!
Yes, for better or for worse, Xorg is gone - replaced by D-Bus and UDEV and a plethora of automation for configuring video cards and displays (and much else) on the fly at boot time.
I am finding that some of the older things that used to work, like both of my printers, are no longer supported. I have managed to get one to work but not all of its features and the other is a total loss. Of course they are both pretty old - but still working.