Is there any way to get Mac style column view in Files App?

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Title says it all. I am using Fedora 40 Workstation with Gnome. I miss the column view for Files on Mac. I am not very technically-competent but wondered if anyone knows if there is ANY way to get this type of folder view in Gnome?

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The macOS column view is called “Miller columns”, it’s not supported in Nautilus. I think right now only Elementary’s file manager has support for it on Linux. I’m not sure but I think the package is called elementary-files on Fedora. I don’t know how well or if at all it works on GNOME.

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Thanks, that should help with Googling it!

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It seems there is no solution, although I did see one person say that got column view by using Elementary’s Files app (He linked to GitHub - elementary/files: File browser designed for elementary OS)

I dont have a clue how to use Github, but if I could work that out, is there any reason why I couldn’t install this on Gnome?

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Try it? If it doesn’t work you would just uninstall it.

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Lacking confidence, that probably sounds kinda obvious, to others with more terminal/technical abilities. But I am hesitant to just ‘try stuff’ on Linux, not understanding the underlying goings on