I liked Ubuntu for a while because of the unique beauty of the basic interface and the ease of use. The problem that I had for a while though was that when you went beyond the basic install and started installing packages other than GTK3 (or GTK4 now) then quirks in between the different libraries (QT of GTK2 I mean would show up up to pronounce an inelegance. Honestly, if they had taken the time to write styles that didn't show such ugly overlay scrollbars, that would fix the problem. The default style in GTK2 doesn't have to have overlay scrollbars. I can understand them being GTK3 and GTK4 because that's what Windows has, but honestly, to fix the entire problem, I have to remember to disable overlay scrollbars altogether every Ubuntu install in /etc/profile or something.

You rote in 'My Review' : Nemo works fine, but still lacks bulk file renaming, which really is a needed feature.
Not so. Install the deb package bulky. In Nemo 'File Management Preferences' -> Bulk Rename' enter 'bulky'. Et voila.

That is showing up as no current package in the Ubuntu repositories:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bulky

$ apt policy bulky
N: Unable to locate package bulky

It also does not show up in the Debian stable or testing package lists:

https://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages?format=txt.gz
https://packages.debian.org/testing/allpackages?format=txt.gz

Quite right. I use Linux Mint 21 which has this: https://github.com/linuxmint/bulky
which should work across distros.

But this is not the ideal solution as it has to be done by the user.

Yeah I can’t recommend applications that are not available unless you compile them from source. There are other solutions, like GPRename, that are in the repos.