Dolphin

[jlittle]

... Midnight Commander... My main question though is does the fact that it runs in a terminal window make it safer to use than running Dolphin as root?

Definitely. GUIs do all sorts of stuff, especially powerful ones like KDE. Some of the stuff they do if running as root cause screw-ups with file ownerships, some with security implications, but all that stuff presents lots of varied "attack surface" for exploits. MC pretty much just does what you tell it to do.

Regards, John Little

[GreyGeek]

For those that want to use a file manager and not have the security issues that the changes are meant to avoid, is using Midnight Commander an option? It runs in Konsole and seems geared up to do the kind of tasks you'd do as root in a file manager. It's in the repositories and is a very small install.

sudo apt install mc
sudo mc

I actually quite like it. My main question though is does the fact that it runs in a terminal window make it safer to use than running Dolphin as root?

#MeToo
Another reason I like mc is because it is lightening fast! At least twice as fast as Dolphin's drag and drop when moving large number of files, or large files.