Solarmass The instructions you gave me were to correct any defects in Nautilus. I can confirm that folders appear before files when copying or moving a file to another folder.
But this was still not the case for Nemo.
So here is what I did:

  • uninstall Nemo, then restart the PC
  • reinstall Nemo following the procedure provided by @EbonJaeger
  • in the Preferences menu, I unchecked the "Inherit view type from parent" option
    and here is the result:

Thanks again for your patience and help and good continuation... with Solus! 😃

    penny-farthing I'have unistalled Nautilus and Nemo work in the right way also with copy to and move to.
    I believe that you jump from Nautilus to Nemo without realizing it.

        penny-farthing Installing Nautilus is fine. If the operation you're doing involves a file picker, then that's a part of GTK itself, not any file manager. The file picker is in GTK.

            3 months later
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            EbonJaeger hey Ebon---your instructions worked on a fresh budgie install. no more nautilus!

            I recommend all Budgie new installs to do this and read the whole thread for the nemo add-ons. nautilus was problematic when I used it immediately after install. some mediocre things never change (nautilus) but thanks to you I changed it. in fedora budgie nemo is the default. that will probably happen in the next .iso...

            ...but I could not wait🙂

              I'm on Gnome and I've given up on Nautilus. I installed nemo and removed nautilus as part of my new install. So far so good.

                a month later

                kizilyildiz I'm not sure what you mean. The icons in those screenshots look the same to me; they should be using whatever you have your icon theme set to.

                  riffer I installed nemo and removed nautilus as part of my new install.

                  Speaking of changing to Nemo: Why is Nemo placed in the Accessories sub-menu (after a reboot) on Budgie? Why not System Tools, or if not that, Utilities? To me, it seems like it's definitely a system tool.

                      WetGeek Because the category that it has in the desktop file is Utility, which the spec describes as "Accessories," which is the name that Budgie uses. Just yesterday I actually made this PR changing some of the category sorting, in which the current Utilities category will no longer exist because it's A) ambiguous with Accessories and B) doesn't include a desktop category that one would expect (X-GNOME-Utilities).

                        a year later

                        EbonJaeger In the next edition of Solus, this will become the default for new installations of Solus Budgie, and these steps will not be necessary.
                        Hello, I just wanted to give a small feedback, that this is not standard as of now. Just in case you switched to nemo in the current ISO and something is not yet working as it should. I did a fresh install yesterday and nemo-desktop wasnt set as default yet.