ZeWaka 4 days ago

$250 for a version with updates past a year? yikes

  • skrebbel 4 days ago

    For a lifetime license incl updates forever that seems quite reasonable to me. It's a bit over a year of Netflix.

    In fact, given that it includes perpetual priority support (within a business day!) I expect the author's gonna change that soon, once he gets one of those infinitely demanding customers and realizes what a terrible mistake he made (inf support for a one-time payment, oops!). So better bite while it's hot!

    The €40 option for one year of updates is a lot more economical and is still a perpetual license for the software itself.

    • Gracana 4 days ago

      Now I'm shocked by the cost of Netflix.

      • Tom1380 4 days ago

        The monthly subscriptions always sound cheaper than they are

        • DrBazza 3 days ago

          Don't forget the old sales technique, £3.99 < £4.00. What a bargain!!!

    • fleshmonad 4 days ago

      Imagine paying for a file browser. This is why windows will always win. They have the most docile userbase ever. They'd rather pay 250 bucks for a file picker than to change OS.

      • MengerSponge 4 days ago

        If you use software that is $10k/year and Windows only, a few bucks here and there to improve your quality of life is a rounding error

      • yread 4 days ago

        Hey Total Commander is free/shareware (if you can live with the nag screen) and superior to anything on any OS

        • katsura 4 days ago

          My solution to the nag screen was that I never turned off my computer, just put it to sleep, so Total Commander was always running.

          Interestingly, TC was one of the few software that I considered paying for, but in the end I didn't because they asked for too much information at the time. Not long later I switched to Linux, and I couldn't use TC there.

      • int_19h 4 days ago

        This is more of a macOS thing.

        Windows users just don't pay and keep using Explorer.

  • g8oz 4 days ago

    Double Commander is open source and no cost.

  • b00ty4breakfast 4 days ago

    some folks about to make a decent amount of money if the trend wrt win11 continues

  • donkeylazy456 4 days ago

    > $250 for a version with updates past a year? yikes It cannot handle CJK encodings too. what a joke

iJohnDoe 4 days ago

I've tried this a few times. Windows 10. Downloaded the 2MB file, double-clicked on it, and nothing happens. Same thing when I tried it a few months again. Put it in a command prompt and no output of an error.

I'm starting to worry I just launched something malicious.

  • direwolf20 4 days ago

    The latter is normal on windows. Executables have a header flag which specifies they either use the terminal or not. If a terminal program is opened from outside a terminal, it opens a terminal window. If a nonterminal program is opened from a terminal, it instantly detaches.

  • smusamashah 4 days ago

    After downloading, did you open its properties and "unblock" it?