Comment by anthk

Modern doesn't always mean better. A better replacement for mplayer was mpv, and in some cases mplayer was faster than mpv (think about legacy machines).

   - bat it's a useless cat. Cat concatenates files. ANSI colour breaks that.

   - alias ls='ls -Fh' , problem solved. Now you have * for executables, / for directories and so on.

   - ncdu it's fine, perfect for what it does

   - iomenu it's much faster than fzf and it almost works the same

   - jq it's fine, it's a good example on a new Unix tool

   - micro it's far slower than even vim

   - instead of nnn, sff https://github.com/sylphenix/sff with soap(1) (xdg-open replacement) from https://2f30.org create a mega fast environment. Add MuPDF and sxiv, and nnn and friends will look really slow compared to these.

Yes, you need to set config.h under both sff and soap, but they will run much, much faster than any Rust tool on legacy machines.