Midnight Commander
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
4recommend
2warn against
Feb 15, 2026first mention
Oct 18, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I love Midnight Commander!”
“I use Midnight Commander, which isn't perfect, but is far more powerful than what is provided by default and is also extensible through things like its user menu.”
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“That's why Midnight Commander was feeling so great.”
“For Linux you have”
Caveats and dissent
“I have tried so many different ones - mc, yazi, ranger - nothing beats Dired”
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Threads where it came up
- The history of development of Norton Commander (2011) 3 mentions
- Stop Making TUIs 1 mention
- Documentation is still in your Mum's filing cabinet 1 mention
- Ask HN: Where is our profession (programmer) going? 1 mention
- The text mode lie: why modern TUIs are a nightmare for accessibility 1 mention
- I have officially retired from Emacs 1 mention
Data: midnight-commander.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 13
“I love Midnight Commander!”
“not even Midnight Commander, which was a key-for key clone, and should have fit me perfectly”
“Nowadays I mostly use clones like Midnight Commander, Krusader and Double Commander”
“But I wouldn't touch Midnight Commander or whatever.”
“I use Midnight Commander, which isn't perfect, but is far more powerful than what is provided by default and is also extensible through things like its user menu.”
“the terminal does not flicker in a lot of other complex TUI apps that I use every day - Midnight Commander, Emacs, tmux, etc.”
“I use mc as a file manager.”
“I have tried so many different ones - mc, yazi, ranger - nothing beats Dired”
“That's why Midnight Commander was feeling so great.”
“bash, bc, convert, cp, df, du, fossil, grep, less, tail, make, man, mc,”
“For Linux you have”
“not that newfangled clone Midnight Commander, the original?”
“I had mc on my $20 second hand 286”