We made the decision to move to Nemo because Nautilus dropped icon support. We have no wish to look back. Obviously if you don’t use desktop icons … you don’t have to use nemo!
Upstream have committed that there should be no regressive capabilities moving forward - so the aim is to have on-par or better capabilities as we move forward
That really depends on who wants to help here. We’ve mulled around moving to a flutter based approach and other toolkits. It will need someone though with the time and passion to drive things forward.
Do look out for our planning posts. We make one per cycle. 24.04 is due soonish. 23.04 was here Planning for 23.04
In terms of actual developments we have one thread per cycle that is maintained to show what has been achieved - Testing 23.10 - Are you brave enough?
Budgie related developments and the future can be found here News | Buddies of Budgie
No - we develop for two platforms only - raspi 4 and 64bit intel
easy - finding motivated people (like yourself?!) to help in anyway they can. Get Involved - Ubuntu Budgie Discourse
Only on a Sunday!