loaf-fm
A beautiful and fast rust-based material 3e file manager for linux.
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GITHUB · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 74 upvotes (top 20%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- file-manager
- material-design
- qml
- rust
- wayland
Similar launches
See all 2236 similar launches →Could you build this?
No Writing a desktop file manager in Rust with Material Design requires deep Linux systems programming, native GUI frameworks, and POSIX file system event management.
What it would actually take: A native Linux file manager in Rust typically relies on a toolkit like GTK4/Libadwaita (or Slint/Iced) alongside asynchronous Linux syscalls (inotify/fanotify for directory watching, POSIX I/O, and Virtual File System abstractions like GVFS). The hard parts include high-performance directory indexing, non-blocking asynchronous file operations, MIME type detection, and robust desktop standard integration (XDG specs). This demands specialized systems programming expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2236 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #490 of 2237 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 350 days after the earliest competitor.
- File-Browser · github · 2026-10-12 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.84
- Maia · github · 2026-10-15 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- fm · github · 2026-10-04 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.74
- rust-explorer · github · 2026-10-17 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- FIPSPad · hn · 2026-02-05 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Twig · hn · 2026-10-20 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- RustDesk-Suite · github · 2026-09-22 · 81 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Solo · hn · 2026-08-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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More details
- External ID
- 1422080829
- Company
- n/a
- Product
- loaf-fm
- Website domain
- github.com
- Cohort
- n/a
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.80
- All tags
- file-manager, material-design, qml, rust, wayland
- AI summary
- material design file manager for linux
- Manually corrected
- No