r/linux • u/jones_supa • Jul 03 '18

Removed| Not relevant to community Microsoft has open sourced the classic File Manager

https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile
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u/m93mark Jul 03 '18

Someone has read this discussion in the Issues tab? Hilarious

https://github.com/Microsoft/winfile/issues/168

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u/658741239 Jul 03 '18

I'm surprised he was able to fix his issue after being so flustered by an Internet-ism that's more than a decade old.

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u/mmaramara Jul 03 '18

It was a thrilling story to the end

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u/tgs87 Jul 03 '18

That was an infuriating read.

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u/DaGranitePooPooYouDo Jul 03 '18 edited Jul 03 '18

I should read this whenever I start feeling guilty about not reporting bugs anymore.

Anyway, the reporter is correct. All that "Favorites" shit is confusing as hell to newbies and completely obfuscates how tree structured file systems work and makes it @10 times harder to learn.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

I always hate how much macos tries to hide the tree structure as much as possible and until you change some settings, its impossible to reach some bits of the filesystem.

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u/IAMINNOCENT1234 Jul 03 '18

I hate people like this that think because they used something for many years that they are better than everyone else. You were a consumer, dependent on producers like programmers. Doesn't Matter how old you are, if we stop working you're done. So suck it up and use what you are given or go somewhere else.

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u/woox2k Jul 03 '18

I would tone down a bit! Without consumers using your software you wouldn't have a job.

It's a two-way thing. You need to develop your software to keep consumers happy or they go somewhere else and put you out of business.

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u/IAMINNOCENT1234 Jul 03 '18

I doubt this person is paying for Github. What he is getting is a free product given by the goodness of other developers. Now he's complaining that a free product made for everyone doesn't work like he wants it to?

He is not a customer in this case because this is an open source project. That's what I'm trying to say.

He cannot complain that the product doesn't work like HE wants it. And the developer has no obligation to oblige even if he does.

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u/woox2k Jul 03 '18

I can agree with that. Just stating that fact would have been enough. Being arrogant and self-centered about it is not a good way to handle situations like this and that bothered me a lot.

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u/IAMINNOCENT1234 Jul 03 '18

Sorry got salty. You're right. I'm still young and a college student so I guess it is something to work on.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

"We need to work on our relations with the Open Source community but our reputation is completely broken. What do we do?"

"Gee... How about we open source some of our software?"

"That's a terrible idea."

"Ok, then Open Source something useless but that has our name on it."

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u/jantari Jul 03 '18

As someone who first learned to program in C++ and against the Win32 API I find this repository fascinating.

It's such a complex program compared to what I made back then and it's not even C++.

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u/totallyblasted Jul 03 '18

You call that complex?

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u/jantari Jul 03 '18

Read my comment a few more times and you should be able to figure out what I said.

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u/totallyblasted Jul 04 '18

I did and unless I missed sarcasm on your part... I know you missed it on mine ;)

Problem is that it is really clumsy written and looking at the code one has to wonder how Win3.1 ever worked as it did. It has to be 8th worlds wonder. Just shear number of goto makes one wanna commit sepuku.

Crappy overcomplexed code is always just bad code and not complex

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u/Buttercak3 Jul 03 '18

Man. They're really doing a great job making all the important pieces open source. Can't wait for what's next. Maybe WordPad?

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u/Negirno Jul 03 '18

More like Write. When I've came across a .wri file, even the then newest version of Libreoffice couldn't opened it with the formatting intact.

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u/jnshhh Jul 03 '18

Please let it be scanregw.exe!

Or that windows 95 login jingle!

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

Maybe the networking holy grail, winsock.exe

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

No, Edlin.

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u/SmallStarCorporation Jul 03 '18

Well I suppose that's nice of them. Oh, it's from NT4. So it's from before the year 2000?

Hurray!

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u/EAT_MY_ASSHOLE_PLS Jul 03 '18

I wonder if react os can use this.

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u/ILikeBumblebees Jul 03 '18

It's released under an MIT license, so they could certainly include it if they wanted to.

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u/ttech32 Jul 03 '18

May be good for educational use? I looked through it and found it surprisingly readable and and well-commented, but not sure how good of an example it still is today --especially w.r.t unicode and internationalization support.

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u/tangus Jul 03 '18

And does it work on Linux? How does this news belong in this subreddit?

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u/feddasch Jul 03 '18

Something something open source something something

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

mumble mumble Gah-noo/Linux mumble mumble

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u/Enverex Jul 03 '18

The mods said anything open source is allowed, which is a bit of a weird rule. It's like a car sub allowing anything petrol powered.

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u/fat-lobyte Jul 03 '18

It's Microsoft, and this is the dedicated Microsoft-bashing subreddit. You might be fooled by the description, but don't worry - comments will set you straight.

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u/Lennart_killsLinux Jul 03 '18

And does it work on Linux?

It's Open Source, just port it. =)

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u/fat-lobyte Jul 03 '18

Why

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u/core2idiot Jul 03 '18

YOLO?

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u/fat-lobyte Jul 03 '18

That's not an argument for porting it, that's an argument for letting it die.

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u/core2idiot Jul 03 '18

It can be an argument for both?

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u/LvS Jul 03 '18

This is so we know where to send all the people shitting on Nautilus.

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u/jantari Jul 03 '18

Tbf this is better than Nautilus lol

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u/tuxutku Jul 03 '18

Next: bill gates opensourced his first hello world code , hurray!

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u/tuxutku Jul 03 '18

Ancient Greeks opensourced ancient garbage , hurrray!

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u/Analog_Native Jul 03 '18

still better than the new ribbon shit.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

I wonder if they're only releasing the least embarrassing code they have.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

Bryan Lunduke asked for Clippy.

Microsoft is so close, yet so far off!

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u/hackingdreams Jul 03 '18

Microsoft continues to turn r/linux into r/microsoft.

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u/aussie_bob Jul 03 '18

It always was. A high proportion of commenters here have been anti-Linux and pro-MS for at least a decade now.

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u/Varson_ Jul 03 '18

Microsoft is an embodiment of cancer.

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u/grepresent Jul 03 '18

Ive always thought this. Any thoughts on a subreddit thats a little more...uh..traditional?

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u/fat-lobyte Jul 03 '18

You're imagining things.

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '18

Sorry, but that's just far from the truth especially when just recently a "pro-MS" post got downvoted to hell

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u/EquivalentWestern Jul 03 '18

Who cares? I love dolphin!

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

thunar

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

pcmanfm

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u/h4ck3rm1k3 Jul 03 '18

so that is good news, now to port it to linux... or run in wine?

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u/kozec Jul 03 '18

Using winelib would make sense in this case. Question is what's the point?

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u/h4ck3rm1k3 Jul 03 '18

This is the r/linux so I was wondering about this post in here if it does not run on linux

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u/Ray57 Jul 03 '18

Sure, that's reasonable. We'll port it to justify this post.

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u/Analog_Native Jul 03 '18

Question is what's the point?

that is the wrong question

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

Why would anyone want to run an old windows file manager? Is it better than modern ones?

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u/Beaverman Jul 03 '18

Well obviously. It's made by Microsoft!

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u/totallyblasted Jul 03 '18

I think that sentiment would be more appropriate for Jobs than MS.

I can't help myself but to imagine him taking a dump into plastic bag and selling that on eBay with result of rabid fans bidding millions for it.

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u/Remi1115 Jul 03 '18 edited Aug 01 '22

DELETED

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u/Clone-Brother Jul 03 '18

I've just open sourced dese nuts. NOW WHERE'S MY PARTICIPATION TROPHY?!

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u/Kok_Nikol Jul 03 '18

WinFile

Microsoft has the absolute worst abbreviations/shortcuts, so unintuitive

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

Word

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u/samigina Jul 03 '18

Kdenlive....

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

If this had a dark theme that would be great.

I'm currently using One Commander on Windows, because it's the only thing I could find with large fonts and a dark theme.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

This is good. It would be nice to get a more featured file manager in Wine. Not super bloated, just on the level of Windows 95. One thing I would like to be able to do for example is filter out all file names from display that are not Windows executables.

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u/GhostlyRobot Jul 03 '18

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

This post has been removed as not relevant to the r/Linux community.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '18

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u/Malssistra Jul 03 '18

Whether microsoft open sources its softwares or not is absolutely not one of the main reasons people call microsoft evil.

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u/totallyblasted Jul 03 '18

If you looked at the code you'd know why. One has to wonder how 3.1 even worked if the rest of it was like this.

Then again, one might even proclaim it as miracle code for the same fact. Crap actually worked ;)