10 Best Free File Manager for Linux

Dolphin is a simple Linux file manager that gives more importance to usability.

It has been designed with ease of use and simplicity in mind, while still allowing flexibility and customization.

It offers all the essential features which you expect from any other file manager, such as browse, open, locate, copy, and move files.

Dolphin file manager is a default file manager for KDE.

Features:-

1. Simple sidebar
2. Supports dockable panels for places
3. information
4. folders and a terminal
5. Breadcrumb Navigation bar for URLs to navigate files quickly through the file hierarchy
6. A split of views and tabs are supported
7. File content previews

Dolphin file manager

emelFM2 is a Linux based file manager that uses a simple yet powerful user interface explored by Norton Commander.

It has three panes based file manager where two of those panes show the contents of selected file system directories, and the third one shows the output of commands executed within the program.

All three panes are easily resizable, and users can hide and unhide any two or one of them as per your requirement.

emelFM2

Endeavour Mark II is a fully-featured file management tool that gives you a file and image browser, recycled objects system, Archiver, together with a set of file and disk management tools.

It has an intuitive user interface which effectively manages by mouse or keyboards, and the image viewer gives you all essential features such as thumbnail preview, image rotation, and zooming.

Features:-

1. Dual-pane tree
2. list-style File Browser
3. Image Browser with thumbs list and a pan & zoom image viewer.
4. Convenient drag & drop operations
5. Drag & drop downloading with the WGet Front End
6. customizable toolbars and list headings.

Endeavour Mark II

GNOME Commander comes with a dual-pane file manager for the GNOME desktop environment.

Its main goal to satisfy the needs of more advanced users who like to focus on file management and their work through specialized tools by running smart commands.

Features:-

1. built on the GTK-toolkit and GnomeVFS.
2. Support for Tabs
3. One instance mode
4. user defined LS_COLORS colors
5. Chance to select and deselect files only
6. GTK-2 GUI with standard mouse interactions
7. FTP is using the GnomeVFS FTP module.
8. SAMBA access.
9. Mouse context menu
10. Folder bookmarks
11. Plugin support
12. Fast internal file viewer
13. A tool for the advanced renaming of files
14. inbuilt command line

GNOME Commander

Konqueror is one of the best and most advanced file managers for KDE.

It offers all vital features of file manager from simple cut/copy and pastes to advanced remote and local network file browsing.

Features:-

1. Web browsing using KHTML or KDEWebKit as rendering engines
2. File management and File screening
3. File management on FTP and SFTP servers
4. Full Featured FTP-client
5. insert applications to preview files
6. Different kinds of plugins

Konqueror

GNU Midnight Commander is a free visual file manager for Linux. It comes with fully featured Fullscreen text mode based UI and Visual shell for beginner to advanced users.

It’s a full-screen text mode application that helps you to copy, move, and delete files and whole directory trees.

Search for files and run commands in the subshell. However, Internal viewer and editor both included.

The user interface based on versatile text interfaces, such as Ncurses or S-Lang, that help you to run on a regular console inside an X Window terminal over SSH connections and all kinds of remote shells.

Midnight Commander

Krusader is an advanced twin panel file manager for KDE that works similar to GNOME Commander or Midnight Commander (Linux), or Total Commander (Windows).

The orthodox file manager has two windows called panels where one is active and the other inactive.

The idea is to manage files from active to inactive panel or within the active panel.

Features:-

1. support for extensive archive handling
2. Multiple file system support
3. File transfers with (S)FTP
4. advanced search module
5. An internal viewer and editor
6. Directory Sync
7. file content comparisons
8. batch renaming
9. It supports so many types of archive formats
10. can handle other KIO slaves such as SMB or fish
11. It supports mime type
12. complete drag n’ drop

Krusader

Nautilus is a free and Open Source file manager for GNOME Desktop that allows you to manage your files and folders in your file system.

Nautilus based on two different modes in which you can communicate with your filesystem: spatial and browser mode.

It depends on you which methods you prefer and set Nautilus to use them as default.

You can use the file manager to do the following:

1. Create folders and documents
2. Display your files and folders
3. Search and manage your files
4. Run scripts and launch applications
5. Customize the appearance of files and folders
6. Open special locations on your computer
7. Write data to a CD or DVD.
8. Install and remove fonts

Nautilus

PCMan File Manager is a fast, lightweight yet Fully Featured file manager with tabbed browsing functionality similar to Firefox Tab.

It’s a perfect alternative file manager for Nautilus, Konqueror, and Thunar.

Features:-

1. Quick & lightweight
2. Can be started in one second on a typical machine
3. Tabbed browsing
4. built In volume management
5. built In File searching tool
6. Drag and Drop Support
7. Files can easily drag and drop among tabs
8. Load large files and folders in a reasonable time
9. File assistance support
10. Thumbnail for image files
11. Bookmarks Support
12. Provides icon view, compact view, and detailed list view

PCMan

Thunar is easy to use, a modern yet secure file manager for the Xfce Desktop environment.

It has a simple, clean yet intuitive user interface that makes file browsing so simple, fast, and more responsive with excellent start-up time and directory load time.

Features:-

1. Path bar
2. Folder Thumbnailer

Thunar File Manager