I work with the Redmond file manager where I am employed, since W95.
I prefer Caja or Dolphin by far ( I'm not a fan of Nautilus or Thunar).
Drag-and-drop is not relevant for me, I use the keyboard whenever possible. --> (oops, my first attempt at emoji humor).
By the way have you seen these:
Of course if you want total control of your file management try getting into the command line - it's a universe of new possibilities.
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