GNOME Commander vs nnn
GNOME Commander
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| Figure | GNOME Commander | nnn |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · File Manager Software | 8.2 (#27) | 8.7 (#6) |
| Dual-pane view | Yes | No |
| License | The project is licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. | The GitHub repository identifies the project license as BSD-2-Clause. |
| Supported platforms | linux | The project says nnn runs on Linux, macOS, Android through Termux, Cygwin, and WSL, among other environments. |
| Purpose | GNOME Commander is a twin-panel graphical file manager for the Linux desktop, aimed at advanced users. | nnn is a full-featured terminal file manager. |
| Search | It provides quick search and filtering, plus advanced search by file name and content. | It supports search-as-you-type and fuzzy, regex, and string filters. |
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GNOME Commander
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nnn
nnn is a terminal file manager designed to be small, fast and nearly zero-configuration. It handles copying, moving, deleting, archiving and linking selections, alongside batch renaming, disk-usage analysis, app launching and file picking. Navigation includes contexts, sessions, bookmarks and directory marks, while search options include instant filtering, fuzzy matching, regular expressions and string filters. It provides directory and text previews, and can create, list, extract and mount archives. Plugins can add functions such as live previews, disk mounting, file comparison and uploads. Remote mounts require optional sshfs or rclone dependencies. The project says nnn typically needs less than 3.5 MB of resident memory; it has no configuration file and uses defaults, with optional environment-variable settings. It is free and open source under the BSD-2-Clause license, and is listed for Android, Linux, macOS and Windows. The project offers packages and a statically linked binary, or users can compile it from source.