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Comment by KoRnKloWn
about Emerge Desktop · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

I've been using this as a shell replacement, with explorer++ as my file manager and I have to say it is amazing!
I tried all of the different shell replacements, and others are good, but this has FULL 64 bit support, and it's a hell of a lot easier to set up and use.

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