Who will be posting a link to Opus in the video's comment section?
I talk about "Directory Opus" in basically every comment I do on Youtube, when it comes to file managers or "switching to Linux" related videos. I will get banned at some time for advertising or being mis-detected as some kind of a comment bot or spammer.. o)
You can't post links in Youtube comments, if you don't want your comment to be removed automatically. Youtube is very picky about what you put in your comments. It's not fun at all to write comments there. Sometimes you get it through, but it will live in a shadow ban, not visible to the rest of the world, modern times! o)
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OTOH, as an IT professional/power user, I couldn't imagine going back to doing development work on Windows. The close integration of near-Linux terminal (or iTerm2) with all GUI-based tools is just too good. Doing DevOps work on Windows was a constant struggle to resolve the disparity between Windows filesystem and a Linux VM (such as Ubuntu in WSL).
The new Macbooks are pretty nice and extremely stable.
But yes, if there is ONE THING that macOS doesn't have, it's a really good file manager like Directory Opus. Hence I use DOpus in Windows under Parallels, and have given it full access to the macOS filesystem. That works, but I wish there was a macOS native DOpus.
Yeah, same deal with Mp3-files.. Forklift, Path Finder, Commander One.. none of them are capable of displaying Mp3 tags in columns so that it would be possible to sort music files by track# tag (when they don't have track# in their file names). Bizarre.. it seems like a pretty common use case.
Despite being likely the best file manager for Mac, Forklift only has about 10% the functionality of DirectoryOpus. There's a massive black hole for file managers on MacOS (or Linux for that matter), that reach beyond toy status.. which is a sad state of affairs indeed. I still fondly remember using DO on my Amiga 2000.
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Ah, yes, Amiga 2000 (also my second computer 
). It was appropriately named, as it was about 15 years ahead of its time.
I know GPSoftware has commented on this before, saying that they're a small company and would find it difficult to have enough manpower to do a full conversion. But, it wouldn't need to be a full conversion to start with. It could be "DOpus Lite" that would initially implement the basics of DOpus, and it would still be the best file manager on macOS. More functionality could be ported gradually.
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