Long time Linux Mint user. First time insall of Zorin (17)

[Aravisian]

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Personally I prefer Nemo, with its customisation, buried in "preferences". But as they say, "Beggars can't be choosers".
I tried installing Nemo as a secondary file manager, which worked, until I found that it borked the update manager. But, one Timeshift later and sorted to back to the default manager.

I have been using Nemo as my default File Manager on Zorin OS since Zorin OS 12.4
Never had a single conflict with it.
You can set Nemo as default:

How do I change or delete the default file manager (Nautilus)?

I also use Nemo (In fact, I use the Cinnamon desktop) on Zorin. You cannot remove Nautilus from Zorin Core as it is integrated into the desktop. But you can make Nemo the default: Once you have Nemo installed, please run the following in terminal: xdg-mime default nemo.desktop inode/directory application/x-gnome-saved-search gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons false gsettings set org.nemo.desktop show-desktop-icons true