Far Manager is a critical piece of software for me to be able to use a computer comfortably and efficiently. Used it all the way from Windows 98 to Windows 7, and now Arch Linux.

Especially since LuaJIT support was added in Far 3 (and far2l Linux port's fork, far2m), I made it to be able to execute a line of Lua code under cursor or in a block of selected text, and print the result (if any) to the editor, turning the editor into something conceptually stronger than a REPL or a command prompt combined.

So now I have two upgrades over command prompt: file-focused, as with Far by default, and Lua-focused.

I've been joking that Far Manager has become my real OS. It also was a source of endless debates with my Linux friend, who insists that everything I can do in Far, he can do in Bash quicker, but that seems true only because he doesn't know Far keyboard shortcuts.

I found Linux port only recently but some functions are messed up, no Alt-F1/Alt-F2, search for files in the current pane isn't working (Alt+character1, character2, etc), and copy/paste too. To the point that it's almost unusable. Any advice?

Make sure you run wxgtk build, not the terminal one. Terminal is limited on what shortcuts it can do. But wxgtk build runs exactly as windows counterpart - Alt+F1/F2 and many other shortcuts work fine.