No I hadn‘t - many thanks for the post.
..... but have now installed Nemo - which is OK - think I need to sort out default icon sizes etc.
F3 is nice - dual windows.
Have to get into all the addin plugins and see what they do for Nemo - at least its progressive.
I like Ubuntu but so often on the next release they go for „fancy“ stuff rather than practicality - but just typical developers!