What you just describes definitely works in modern versions of Nautilus. Just checked on fedora 34. I have a nagging memory that this may not have worked in th

What you just describes definitely works in modern versions of Nautilus. Just checked on fedora 34. I have a nagging memory that this may not have worked in the past though. I actually find Nautilus perfectly fine to use. My biggest gripe is sometimes it's difficult to right click to get a context menu that isn't a file selection (ie: to create a new folder when you're in the list view)