For a few weeks I've been taking Linux Mint 19 for a spin by running it live from a flash drive, and I'm considering installing it to my SSD. But there's a very strange behavior that could be a deal-breaker. In Nemo 3.8.5, I cannot get my folders and files to sort by name in simple alphabetical order! This is true whether I'm in list view or icon view, and the behavior is maddeningly consistent in all my subfolders.
What happens is that a set of folders are grouped alphabetically, but not all the folders. A second set appears below that first set, also sorted alphabetically. No folder appears in both lists. It's as if the software just randomly assigned every folder to one of two sets (always two). Next, a set of files appears alphabetically. And then below that, another set of files appears alphabetically. Like the folders, no file is in both sets, they're just split into two groups for some bizarre reason. So I often have to go through both groups of folders or files to find the item I'm looking for!
A picture is worth a thousand words. Here are two screenshots showing my actual folders and files, sorted by name. I'll use list view because it's easier to see that way.
Notice roughly halfway down the list it transitions from Z back to A for the start of the second set. Next the files appear. I'm showing only the end of the first group and the beginning of the second: OMG I just figured it out! Now that I've gone to all this trouble and have forced myself to focus on just the beginnings of the item names, I realize the top set is capitalized letters and the bottom set is lower case! I've scratched my head over this for many days, and just as I'm about to ask for help I figure it out.
Well, I might as well post this anyway, as it could help someone else.
But I do have one question: Is there any way to tell Nemo to ignore the case and just put them all together? I certainly don't mind changing them but I'm just curious.
