GNOME’s Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE’s Dolphin and Xfce’s Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files.
This Week in GNOME highlighted a notable albeit one could argue long overdue change for GNOME Files / Nautilus: Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert support for copying and pasting files.
It’s gnome, it was likely broken deliberately in the name of “simplicity”
The sad thing is that this is true. They removed entirely all settings related to dash in name of simplicity.