Okay, so viewing your filesystem in three dimensions isn’t as popular today as it was a few years go. It is still very, very cool, though, and it’s fun to pull out the viewers and give them a whirl:
Whether you’re searching for an unused nook in a cramped disk partition, or trying to find the bloated temp/ folder that’s crashing your system, sometimes the flat folder view of a traditional GUI file browser is little help. Luckily, Linux offers a variety of 3-D filesystem that can make your disk usage statistics come alive. (via linux.com)
The problem with 3-D viewing a filesystem is visual confusion. It’s almost impossible to coherently represent a modern filesystem in 3-D. Everything just comes out as a confusing mass of objects or blocks or balls. But this isn’t about usability, it’s about coolness. I especially like XCruiser’s starship motif. What’s not to like about flying a spaceship through the galaxies of your filesystem?
