Bleh, haven’t been here in a while. So I have a Windows 10 PC that I use for gaming and a Fedora laptop I use for everything else. I simply cannot go back to not having tabs. I don’t understand why Windows doesn’t have them by default. So help me out here.
FreeCommander is nice, it’s the one I use.
You can download KDE plasma’s filemanager from Here Builds are currently broken tho Edit: that one should work https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/system/dolphin/master/windows/
Dolphin has tabs, split screen, a real tree, plus a whole load of other useful productivity features.
It’s native in windows 11 fyi
… as is Windows Recall /s
There is a file manager app which looks similar to the Windows 11 one, but for Windows 10. It is also free and open source. It called Files
I’ve been using this for a couple of years now and it’s great.
I have a very occasional problem where Windows tries to launch some sort of non-file-system stuff in Files instead of Explorer, but it’s not a blocker.
I use OneCommander and it works pretty well. The dev just added a single window mode with tabs as well.
I use qttabbar, tabs are one of the many improvements it adds.
I use Groupy by Stardock for this. It’s a neat little tool that lets you make pretty much any application into a tab by grouping them.
It isn’t open source nor free though, and I didn’t even realize there was a Groupy 2 until I searched it to get you a link. For something I use daily, it was worth it for $10.
FWIW windows 11 has tabs in the file explorer. You could technically also install a Linux for browser via WSL.
Clover is one… but you might not like the dev.
Hmm google suggests this: https://www.minitool.com/news/enable-tabs-in-file-explorer-on-windows-10.html
