I love Linux. If you don’t like what comes with your distro, you’ve got actual options. I don’t like KDE and Xfce doesn’t quite do it for me. I’m a Gnome gal, so I use Ubuntu rather than Kubuntu or Xubuntu. That said, I’m not all that happy with Nautilus. It’s better since they ditched the default “spatial” behaviour, but if your /home is as full of junk as my /home (or /Music, or /Photographs) and you’re as “NOW!” as I am, then Nautilus is not your friend because it takes too fucking long to open the folder even if you prefer list view to file view. I’d tried Gnome Commander, and it was okay, but I’d have to get used to the dual-pane interface, and couldn’t be bothered. Heh. I could use Konquerer if I installed the KDE libs, but I never liked Konqueror that much, either (too web browser-ish). All I wanted was a fast file browser; I don’t need disc-burning capabilities (that’s what GnomeBaker is for), I don’t need it to sort or display thumbnails of my pictures (that’s why I installed Picasa), I don’t need it to do anything except show me the specified directory in a big goddamned hurry. Today, I discovered Pcmanfm (PC Man’s File Manager), an application that some guy in Taiwan wrote for use on slower machines. My machine isn’t slow, but I’m very impatient, so I thought if it ran well on a slow machine, it should fly on mine…and I was right. Same basic interface as Nautilus, but where Nautilus takes five seconds to load my enormous directories, Pcmanfm loads the same ones in under two. All I had to do to make my custom shortcuts work was change “nautilus” to “pcmanfm”; the paths are otherwise the same. I can even switch back and forth between Location view and Tree view, and (unlike Nautilus), if I enable hidden files, I don’t have to restart the program to get them to show. For some reason, Nautilus will hide hidden files without a restart, but won’t show them. Bug…I dunno, but it’s a pain when you usually hide them, but occasionally have to un-hide to access a particular app’s settings. It would be good if Pcmanfm could be set to open on single click because that’s the system-wide setting that I use, but I suppose I can learn to double-click; Christ knows I did it for enough years when I still used Windows. Anyway, I love Linux because I’m quite particular about the way my system looks and works, and I love choice.