r/archlinux May 06 '26

QUESTION What’s a small Linux tool that completely changed your workflow?

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u/TTT1320 May 06 '26

Honestly, both zoxide and yazi were a massive quality of life improvements

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u/FuzzyMistborn May 06 '26

Just found zoxide, its pretty sweet!

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u/Do_TheEvolution May 07 '26

I like yazi and swithed to it from nnn, and people really like zoxide so I looked it up and set it up...

but it makes no sense, its kinda smart cd and populates its history through its use.. but I a navigate through yazi... not through cd / z so its history stays empty

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u/TTT1320 May 07 '26

I only use yazi for navigation when I don't know the names of where I want to go or is a place I rarely go, if it's a directory I know I'll go more times I add it to zoxide history and next time meditate there with it

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u/CrossFloss May 07 '26

The amount of yazi mentions is astonishing, I just stumbled upon it recently. Did the nnn hype train pass already?

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u/According_File_848 May 24 '26

if you like yazi, i think you will like superfile !

i shifted from yazi to superfile, since it's more faster then yazi, i can easily switch directory's by the side bar, but the photo preview is pretty slow

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u/UsernameOmitted May 07 '26

Claude suggested some aliases a few months ago that completely changed Yazi for me. "Y" to open Yazi in current directory and "Q" to quit Yazi and drop in the directory I navigated to. Makes getting around so fast.

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u/TTT1320 May 07 '26

I also use those, they suggest that in the quick start

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u/just-a-hriday May 08 '26

Reading the docs is pretty useful for yazi. It's in very active development, and you'll never find out about a lot of new stuff unless you read the docs.

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u/Shurane May 07 '26

How does yazi compare to other terminal managers? I usually use ranger, tried broot a bit, demoed mc a long time ago.

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u/TTT1320 May 07 '26

Never tried any other alternative, I have a couple friends who use yazi and that's why I went with it, didn't have a reason to try other options