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file-explorer

Just another file explorer: fast, keyboard-first, GPU-rendered file manager for Linux (C, SDL3).

Completely free
Linux
Open source
No account

Overview

file-explorer is a file manager, available on Linux.

Features described in its GitHub repository: built-in terminal.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Just another file explorer: fast, keyboard-first, GPU-rendered file manager for Linux (C, SDL3)” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
“Terminal tabs: a built-in terminal next to your files, opened in the current folder with .” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of file-explorer is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

Open source code
No account needed
Commercial use allowed

Sources and checks

Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 10 November 2026
Last technical check: 9 November 2026
Description from github.com — Dépôt GitHub AlexMedela/file-explorer (MIT)

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