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Blog post mentions Cinnamon's nemo as not having the same issues as Nautilus and I have to agree. I've been distro-hopping for years (just to keep myself current) and Nemo is by far the best and most stable file manager for GNU/Linux. macOS' Finder is the only FM that's nicer but Nemo has few things that makes it even better than Finder. All in all, I'm super-happy with nemo! Kudos to Cinnamon team. And don't forget to donate to them! [1]

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I wholeheartedly agree that Nemo provides a far better experience than Nautilus.

But Nemo is also not without issues. Crashes when deleting files in certain situations (folder tree is expanded and you delete all files). If you are using Nemo and use a lot of network drives or external drives, be prepared for random freezes.

When that freeze happens, killing Nemo doesn't help, nemo -q doesn't help, restarting cinnamon doesn't help. That's when I fire up the ol' trusted Thunar.

Please file any bugs you come across on their Github page! From my experience, they fix crashes quickly. I came across a similar issue a while back and they fixed it in the next release.

https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues

The worst bug with nemo is when handling remote filesystems, it switches to a some kind of fallback mode that disables keyboard shortcuts and context menu options but drag/drop still works and you have to kill it to continue working.

Nemo still doesn't have folder thumbnails, which is an odd omission that I feel like shouldn't be that hard to implement. It's one of the few things I miss from my windows days when navigating through my albums

>folder thumbnails

Is that a Windows feature? I've only ever used macOS and GNU/Linux so never got used to that. I just did a quick search on their Github Issues page and didn't see it requested. You can file a request here: https://github.com/linuxmint/nemo/issues

https://github.com/flozz/cover-thumbnailer works well for creating thumbnails.

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