This makes me want a 3D version in the vein as SGI's fsn file manager then we'd all have an excuse to mutter "This is Linux, I know this" to ourselves.

I didn't get the reference, so I looked it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsn_(file_manager)

Modern-ish version you can run on Linux: https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv