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Can't imagine using my system without this.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 37 points 3 months ago

I can't believe no one mentioned this, but: remote access.

I spend most of my day connected to machines via SSH and yazi offers a great UX with file previews and all. Using kitty I even get image previews in the terminal.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

remote access

To be fair, X11 forwarding is a straightforward thing, bearing in mind any security/performance/administrative restrictions which may apply to your situation.

Alternatively, SSHFS can be used to mount a remote directory locally.

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've used plenty of sshfs a few years ago, but x11 forwarding is a compromise. The latency makes it painful to work with for more than a few minutes.

[-] rcbrk@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, X11 forwarding is only fine on a campus wide network, maybe city-wide at most, if the wan is fast enough.

Sshfs would also be painful for operations processing a lot of data (grepping gigs of log files or even creating thumbnails of images to browse).

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Do image previews work over SSH? I admit I've never actually tried it...

[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago
[-] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Well, do you prefer kitty or yazi?

[-] ManTaboo@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

They are two different things. Yazi is a file manager and Kitty is a terminal emulator.

[-] Amaterasu@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ok, Dolphin would be the comparative here from KDE Qt but, since is made for GTK probably Nautilus is the one to be compared.

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