Finding Nemo [for Mint users]

[#1]

Why have Mint backported Nemo from unstable Mint 14 to the LTS Mint 13?
Mint 13 users will find that Nautilus has mutated into something called Nemo.
It's fine as simple and clumsy file manager - but lacking in a lot of function e.g. Emblems, open as root, multimedia info not shown (not even for MP3 files)...
e.g. for a film (which is fine) :-

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jeremy@HECTOR:~$ nemo (totem:10575): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: Read/writable property 'object' on class 'ZeitgeistDpPlugin' has type 'TotemObject' which is not exactly equal to the type 'GObject' of the property on the interface 'PeasActivatable'

I was able to stop nemo working and allow Nautilus to work (as it should) by altering

/etc/xdg/autostart/nemo-autostart.desktop

to read:-

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[Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Files Comment=Start Nemo desktop at log in #Exec=nemo -n OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity; NoDisplay=true Name[en_GB]=nemo-autostart

i.e. I simply commented out the

Exec=nemo -n

line.
This stops nemo from starting and since the update didn't remove

/etc/xdg/autostart/nautilus-autostart.desktop

Nautilus starts as normal.

[#2]

The reason they backported it (and you only get it if you have the backport repo enabled) is the way that nautilus is heading, much more dummied down interface etc, nemo will improve, just like mate has over past year.
Since I use mate as a desktop I have caja a nautilus port, missing the same multimedia info, one thing I miss from nautilus.

[#3]

But I get to keep nautilus 3.4 (with a load of stuff from ppa's) which is very nearly as good as the old nautilus. 
Backports should only fix bugs etc; not remove functionality.