15 Days in Dired

As I was exploring Spacemacs, I challenged myself to do all file management with Dired for 15 days.
Even with my limited knowledge of Spacemacs, I was able to get most of the stuff done quite easily. And as I kept on using it, the experience only got better.
Here's what I liked the most.

Know where you want to go? Just start typing... then press Enter.
Edit: Press Ctrl + S, then start typing... then press Enter.

terminals open in the same directory

When you open a terminal from a Dired buffer, it automatically does a cd into the same directory.

one-off commands are easier

You can run an external command on files using the ! and & keys.

xdg-open is your friend

We expect that double-clicking on a file will open it in the "default application". This can be done with xdg-open. Because xdg-open is hard to type, I symlinked it to xoxo.

$ sudo ln -sT /usr/bin/xdg-open /usr/bin/xoxo

$ sudo ln -sT /usr/bin/xdg-open /usr/bin/xoxo

split screen is phenomenal

Press o instead of Enter to open a folder in a separate window. When you try to copy files while having split windows open, Spacemacs automatically suggests the path opened in the other split.

tldr;