This is super annoying, and very unexpected behaviour change particularly for users coming from Windows. There is a patch to change the behaviour back here: https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nautilus-typeahead
At the very least this should be a setting in nautilus, if it isn't made the default behaviour.
This is super annoying, and very unexpected behaviour change particularly for users coming from Windows. There is a patch to change the behaviour back here: https:/ /launchpad. net/~lubomir- brindza/ +archive/ ubuntu/ nautilus- typeahead
At the very least this should be a setting in nautilus, if it isn't made the default behaviour.