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Since all of the “Linux is easy” folk are here I’ll ask a question even though I’m not near my PC:
I’m dual booting W11 and ZorinOS, I have 3 drives and only the OS drive mounts at boot. The other 2, games SSD and a storage HDD, have to mounted manually. An online search yielded that this was “expected behaviour” and “how it’s designed to work” but unfortunately it confuses Steam each time I boot because as far as Steam is concerned the drive ceases to exist.
Has anyone else had the same issue? I think I could use crontab to mount the drives at boot but it seems like something that shouldn’t be happening at all.
Not sure what you searched for to get those answers, all I had to search was "Linux mount at boot" to get this answer with directions for editing /etc/fstab or using the gnome disk utility gui based on your preference
It's absolutely bananas that internal drives are not mounted automatically by standard. It's even more bananas that it's not easily customizable via GUI. Gnomes partitioning app can somewhat do it I believe, in KDE's partitioning app, it was completely broken last time I tried. Either way I lost two people back to Windows because of this
Yeah its not a perfect system, has some flaws, but its actual freedom from surveillance and late stage capitalism on the plus side.
Not bad for a free, modern desktop that looks stunning.
Absolutely! I've been on Linux since 2017 and KDE Plasma since 2019-ish. It outperforms Windows even in terms of usability/ease of use in most cases. My 70+ years old, tech-illiterate parents happily use it.
But things like mounting and partitioning make me scratch my head. KDEs partitioner requires sudo rights to even start and then formats partitions in a way that you need sudo rights to access it. It's annoying and would be very easy to fix.
You can fix it yourself also, just add the command being run to the sudoers file and it will always run as root without needing your input.
Im sure chat gpt can give you the exact command to put in.
While I do agree with you on principle, keep in mind that while NTFS is technically supported in Linux there can still be issues. Reading is fine, but write can still be suspect. Someone a lot more experienced than I can correct this if I'm wrong, but it is not recommended to share a drive actively between Windows and Linux due to NTFS quirks.
I mount my Windows NTFS data disk as needed in CachyOS, and will build the NAS I keep putting off for active file sharing as I spend more time on the Linux partition.
Yeah NTFS is not a great experience indeed. You can only do so much without it being open source. But I also experienced issues with mounting ext4 or btrfs. It's not a dealbreaker for me, but it tends to irritate new users while it seems easy to fix.
Not sure, but I’ll give that a go this weekend when I have some time to play around with it. Many thanks!
The hard part is knowing exactly what language to search to get the result you want.
this was the only confusing thing I found withWheb I started using Linux, but once I got my drive mounting at boot at startup.
I don't have any problem with doing it anymore but why don't beginner friendly distros have like a gui version or something easier to do that with for new users?