Last thing I remember was him dropping a hard R.

If it has hierarchical organization like files/folders, then miller columns. I wish there was a decent Linux file browser with miller columns; it’s one of my favorite things in macos.

If the cover art/thumbnail is helpful for quickly visually scanning, then grid. This is for things like my movies and shows in Kodi.

Everything else should be a list.

Basically, I could send you my configuration file (and lock file) and you could run a single command to get a system that looks/runs identical to mine.