A fast, native file manager for Linux — with a search that understands what you mean.
Like “Files” on a Mac or “File Explorer” on Windows, but quicker, better looking, and a lot smarter. Everything it needs is bundled — nothing else to install.
Two folders at once — the active one has a soft blue edge; bookmarks and drives live in the left strip.
The everyday file manager things, done well — plus a few that neither Finder nor Explorer has.
Type “the invoice about the roof repair” or “my resume” and it finds them — even when that isn’t the file’s name. On-device, private.
Dual panes with drag-between, plus one-way and two-way folder sync for backups and thumb drives.
Tell Atlas which app opens a kind of file, and it remembers — no fighting the desktop over defaults.
Image thumbnails in the grid and an inline picture preview as you browse, with sortable detail columns.
Connect to SMB, SFTP, and cloud storage through a simple guided form — the backends are built in.
The search model, database, sync and search tools all ship inside — one install, nothing else to set up, on any distro.
On Arch and its derivatives, it’s on the AUR. Other distros pull from the project’s package repos.
yay -S pathfynder-atlas # or paru, or any AUR helper
Builds from source, from the project’s public mirror. See the AUR page for the full build notes and the (deliberate) bundling rationale.
Prebuilt packages (apt / dnf) and a Windows installer are distributed through the project’s own repositories — the setup steps live in the source README.
LICENSE.md.