Newbie Post: I have gone "all-in" with Linux Mint 22.1, wiping Windows completely. All good...with two nagging problems.
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I'm pretty new as well. Try looking at mounting your hard drives with /etc/fstab. You should try to mount them via UUID and put them in the /mnt folder. I'm using mint cinnamon your mileage might vary. https://wiki.debian.org/fstab
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You say you haven't been able to install Nvidia drivers, but then say you are using 550 drivers. Are you saying you can't run any games or programs that engage your GPU? Open and terminal and run
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What is the filesystem on these drives? If it's NTFS, they will be mounted as read-only by default and show as owned by root. This is by design to prevent potential damage to NTFS filesystems which are technically a Windows-only thing. You do have the option of changing this behavior, but it will inevitably cause problems because the open driver to run these filesystems on Linux still runs into some MS proprietary filesystem issues. If you have the option of copying the files on each drive to your local drive, reformatting the externals into another more friendly filesystem, then copying the files back, you'll be in a much better place. I would suggest exFat to make things simplest for you, since it sounds like you may be plugging those drivers into other Windows machines, potentially.
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Can't disable in BIOS, I even updated my BIOS hoping the new one would have that capability, but no joy.
Yes, video drivers got me using Timeshift a LOT.
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Thanks for the info and the feeling of not being alone
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I turned secure boot off a while ago but I did update the BIOS which involved resetting to default and I should check that, thanks.
I'll try disks, but I think the problem is NTFS formatting. Which sucks, but it's understandable.
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That's very fair. I say this only because I've found myself going down a rabbit hole of things not working on my own before, and a reinstall is usually the faster option for me. POP was just one example, a lot of distributions come with Nvidia installed by default.
Mint should work pretty much out of the box, but I remember Optimus being tricky sometimes. I do not recommend Manjaro, and not because it's arch. The last time I used Manjaro, it's automatic updater updated my Nvidia driver and my kernel to two separate versions that didn't work with each other, and bricked my system on me. It's not exceptionally stable even as far as Arch goes.
Arch doesn't have to be scary, I use Garuda and it has made it very user friendly.
I run all updates with one command and that command automatically makes snapper backups that I can pick between on boot, which makes fixing anything that can go wrong pretty easy.
Garuda Cinnamon edition uses the same desktop that mint uses.
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Pop OS is excellent. You wouldn't really know it's created by a corporation. It's basically just the build they run on their hardware but I've not seen anything in it like ads or anything limiting my freedom. My perception of it is that it's just a more friendly and (snap-free) Ubuntu and I concur with those saying Nvidia is smoother on it. It does have a modified gnome but coming in the near future is their own DE called cosmic which seems promising. If it ends up being bad I will probably just switch to fedora even though Debian based distro are more supported
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If you have the default version of Mint installed then your desktop environment is Cinnamon. There are also XFCE and MATE versions, but you have to go out of your way to get those. The default file explorer for Cinnamon is called Nemo, so if you haven't changed it that would be what you are using.
Honestly, I think your best bet is trying Disks or maybe gparted if you like cli apps, and setting a mount point for the device from one of those. Linux doesn't always like NTFS, but you should at least be able to mount and read the drive consistently, although I have to admit I've never used an NTFS formatted external drive, so maybe something weird is going on with that.
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I don’t understand why Mint is chosen by people.
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Seems like a promising answer, I wonder why someone downvoted it. I wish they'd left a comment.
I'll def explore it
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If you want stability and ease of use similar to Windows, I highly recommend Fedora Silverblue, Kinoite or Bazzite. Optimus is working (now, asus gfxctl was broken for two weeks due to a new kernel) every keyboard shortcut is working, and, for some unknown miracle, battery life is better than windows. I'm on a G14.
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Well that's exactly what the issue is, so there's your solution. Easy to confirm with one command.
