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nnn vs PCManFM: catalog facts
nnn	PCManFM
Free Free and open source under a BSD 2-clause licence.	Free Free and open source under the GPL-2.0 licence.
macOS, Linux, Command line	Linux
About 150 KB and typically under 3.5 MB of memory in use Analyses disk usage, batch renames, launches apps and picks files	Very low resource use Suits minimal desktops and older hardware
No Windows build outside Cygwin or WSL Previews and many conveniences need plugins and external programs	Linux only Fewer advanced features than larger file managers
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: BSD-2-Clause	License: GPL-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 23, 2026

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