Comment by malkia

The two most indispensable programs for me are "midnight manager" for Linux/OSX and the like, and "Far Manager" on Windows (and mc there too under wsl2).

I'm lost with Far Manager at work. I've stopped using Explorer long time ago (and use it only to verify some reported workflow from other users, or some obscure thing not possible in Far Manager).

Other tools: tig (pager), emacs, mg (mini-emacs) - I wish that was available on Windows too without needing msys2/cygwin, and few others.

Back in the DOS days - it was Norton/Volkov Commander, PC Tools, but also Turbo/Borland Pascal 3, 4, 5; the most awesome E3 editor (from this series - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(PC_DOS) ) - and many more