Show HN: Ferry, a highly customizable and feature-rich file manager for macOS
I am the main developer of Ferry. The team I am part of began on the demoscene in the mid-90s, but for a long while we are mainly just an indie development studio. Ferry started with me being forced to use macOS at my current workplace, which suddenly replaced a working environment I'd been using during professional career as a programmer: Windows for around 10 years, then Debian/KDE for the last 15 years. Over that time, I'd grown very accustomed to Total Commander on Windows, and later Dolphin
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Source account: I am the main developer of Ferry. The team I am part of began on the demoscene in the mid-90s, but for a long while we are mainly just an indie development studio. Ferry started with me being forced to use macOS at my current workplace, which suddenly replaced a working environment I'd been using during professional career as a programmer: Windows for around 10 years, then Debian/KDE for the last 15 years. Over that time, I'd grown very accustomed to Total Commander on Windows, and later Dolphin
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