But then, unlike a lot of geeks, I actually tried it for a little while. I discovered that a lot of what I do actually is file management (moving groups of things around, creating new files and folders, transferring things back and forth -- spatial mode is wonderful with remote filesystems, since you have a source window and a destination window, and just drag and drop between) instead of file browsing, and thus spatial mode is a pretty big help. And if I don't want all those windows, I can either close all parent windows with a simple keyboard shortcut, or right-click on a folder and hit the "browse" option to get an old-style browser window.

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So I'd really like to see whether there's any solid evidence against spatial file managers, other than a bunch of whiny geeks who decided they didn't like it without ever giving it a shot.