presianbg Same way as now: Open Budgie Desktop Settings, click Desktop on the left, and turn off Desktop Icons.

    BuzzPCSOS I'm going to answer my own question here to save anyone else wasting time on it.
    To run Ventoy, Nemo must be running as root (right click in a folder and pick 'run as root' from the dropdown).
    So simple, must have done that before and then forgot. Got so comfortable with Solus the way it was.
    I hope this might be helpful for anyone else who might get caught by the different way root is handled by Nemo in some instances.

        Updated the steps above for a better way to autostart Nemo desktop. Before, you couldn't disable desktop icons once they had been turned on. If you created an Autostart entry in Budgie Desktop Settings, be sure to remove it when you add the new autostart file.

        All good here, and pretty painless. Bookmarks, custom folder icons, etc., all were as before. Happily, it wasn't necessary to recreate any of that (I tend to rely on custom folder icons to help quickly navigate in the file manager, and have them all over the place).

        All previous scripts continue to work fine, after a straight copy from ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts to ~/.local/share/nemo/scripts.

        Nice to have stuff back that was falling off nautilus, e.g. the gtkhash extension.

        I like the pin/unpin facility in Nemo, that will let you pin a selection of files/folders to the top of the file listing, and retain it across sessions. Very likely that I'll use that a lot. (I don't remember Nautilus ever having that, even before it started to shrink in capabilities?)

        And the Desktop is way more useful now 👍

        Great job, @EbonJaeger and anyone else involved!

        Reading this thread has been a big relief. I am absolutely enjoying the Solus Mate life but will be back when the new budgie ISO comes.

        Solarmass It is funny how appimages will prompt for a root password but the Ventoy software will not when run on Nemo. Changing Nemo to root is very easy so all I have to worry about is not closing out of root when I have finished with Ventoy.

            BuzzPCSOS

            I don't remember how I run it last time on Nautilus, probably with root too. I just checked it asks for root in popup in Nautilus. You can bug-report it on Ventoy github..

              BuzzPCSOS It is funny how appimages will prompt for a root password

              the appimage peeps reccomend [per their official website] you change the permissions right after you download an appimage so it won't prompt you for sudo ever again.

              BuzzPCSOS but the Ventoy software will not when run on Nemo.

              I read this a few times and still don't know what you mean. The software doesn't' 'run' per se, it's a storage formatting program (maybe you are right) that you can either mount, open, and see your .isos. Or not? You are saying you need permission just to get Nemo to recognize Ventoy usb? Or to open it? And if that's true I wonder if its another permissions problem.

                  algent I have an older Ventoy version and it has Ventoy2Disk.ini owned by root for some reason..
                  I will try to download the latest version, let's see..

                  UPD: all unpacked files owned by user now, double click on VentoyGUI.x86_64 - nothing happens, running from the terminal ./VentoyGUI.x86_64 opens Authenticate dialog.

                  double click on VentoyGUI.x86_64 in Nautilus opens Authenticate dialog.

                  @algent are you root user perhaps?

                      Nemo doesn't have Extract option in context menu 🙁

                      Solarmass but you would have to chmod it just to flash a usb, right? Look forward to what you find out. I got rid of my ventoy binary.

                          brent I guess you have to run it with sudo, I wonder how @algent run it without sudo 🤔
                          And also why there is no Authenticate dialog in Nemo.

                              algent Like this, I just run it.

                              Yup! Same here! So you have this Authenticate dialog too!

                                  Solarmass Yes, what is the problem with it? I think it is nomal. It is behaving same as the ventoy app that I have installed system wide.

                                      algent the problem is that when you launch it from Nemo - nothing happens..
                                      And other usability problem, there is no "Extract" in the Nemo's context menu.