Nemo Anywhere

Nemo is one of the best file managers made to date: fast, sane, powerful, and it respects how you actually work. There is one catch - it belongs to the Cinnamon desktop, so on anything else you get it with strings attached, or not at all.

This fork takes Nemo as it is from the source and removes every assumption that says you are running Cinnamon, or even that you are running Linux. It runs standalone on any Linux desktop alongside whatever file manager is already there, and natively on Windows, with BSD and macOS to follow.

One codebase, with dependencies compiled in rather than hunted down at install time.

Highlights

• Runs without Cinnamon: no desktop-drawing baggage, and no desktop stack pulled in behind it.
• Runs without Linux. Native Windows first, then BSD and macOS.
• Every dependency baked into a single executable, so it resists dependency drift and bitrot for decades.
• Still Nemo: same code lineage, GPL intact.
• Copies use near-instant, near-zero-size copy-on-write clones automatically where the filesystem allows it.
• Everything that made Nemo worth porting is still there - real file-operation progress, sane merging, open-in-terminal, proper bookmarks, and a real extension API.