Comment 152 for bug 1164016

Agree with Grant, not easy, but doable.
I migrated to nemo 42 days ago following this guide:
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/07/how-to-replace-nautilus-with-nemo-file.html

I must say I can't be more happy :-)
Again things work as I would expect in a file explorer.
Typeahead works - but also the multi-tab that was dropped from nautilus some time ago - I missed that one too.
So, IMHO great decision.
I would love that ubuntu takes nemo as default.

These discussions are really weird, when the change can be easily solved adding a flag in preferences, and the discussion get hot with your community, not solving sounds like discussion evolved to ego issues.