Comment by jchw

3 hours ago

There is something amusing about the fact that WinDirStat, as far as I know, was based on KDirStat (now QDirStat), yet this doesn't even get mentioned on their Wikipedia page, and by and large a lot of people don't even know QDirStat exists. One time someone even asked me if they knew of a good alternative for Linux; good news!

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burnte  2 hours ago

SpaceSniffer is an even better version of WinDirStat but I rarely see people talk about it, too.

squigz  2 hours ago

It is actually mentioned on the Wikipedia page [1] - and of course, you could add it yourself if that's not enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinDirStat#Version_history[10]

  • jchw  2 hours ago

    Okay, I stand corrected, but I also stand by that it is interesting that it is pointed out that "The project was inspired by SequoiaView" in the lead section, but not that it was a direct port of KDirStat. It feels odd but also intentional, so I never bothered to change it. I'll leave it up to if anyone else feels similarly enough to do so, because then at least that means there are two of us.

  • analog8374  2 hours ago

    Everything I ever added to Wikipedia was removed, within the day, by a very diligent and hard-working Wikipedia person.

    • realitylabs  2 hours ago

      Same. My experience with the “concept” of Wikipedia was very high until I had the “direct experience” of Wikipedia, and I realized that the encyclopedia of the commons may not have planned for me to be in the commons.