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Nemo Anywhere

The Nemo file manager, freed from Cinnamon - and from Linux.

A tour of Nemo Anywhere: the folder tree beside Places, a second content pane, icon view with thumbnails, search results grouped by folder, files compressed with no helper program, and a drag that asks before it moves anything.

Nemo is one of the best file managers made to date: fast, sane, and powerful. 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, next to whatever file manager is already there, even the original Nemo. On Windows it is a real native build in one executable, with nothing to install. BSD and macOS come later.

It also does more of the file management work itself, the same way on every platform, so nothing depends on a helper program that only exists on one of them. Compressing and extracting archives, searching inside office documents, and thumbnails for camera raw files are all built in.

It is in beta while the visual polish gets a last pass, and has been in daily use on Linux and Windows for months.

Highlights

  • Runs without Cinnamon: no desktop-drawing baggage, and no desktop stack pulled in behind it.
  • A native Windows build in a single executable. It opens the Recycle Bin, Explorer's Properties sheet, and .lnk shortcuts, and follows the Windows light or dark setting.
  • Compresses to zip, tar, and 7z, with passwords and split volumes, and extracts most archive types, with no helper program.
  • A drag that would move files asks first, and links are never followed on a delete or a move.
  • Search results can be grouped under the folder each came from, and content search reads Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OpenDocument, and EPUB files.
  • Places and the folder tree can be open side by side, and list view columns size themselves to what is in them.
  • Twenty-three icon sets built in, including four drawn to match Windows XP, 7, 10, and 11.
  • Settings live in one plain text file, and each window runs as its own process, so one crash does not take down the rest.
  • Still Nemo: same code lineage, GPL intact, with real file-operation progress, sane merging, open-in-terminal, and proper bookmarks.
  • Copies use near-instant, near-zero-size copy-on-write clones automatically where the filesystem allows it.