Re: [orca-list] Mounting units automatically in a graphical interface

[Kyle <kyle4jesus gmail com>]

Do you need this partition to be mounted every time you boot the
machine? If you only need it occasionally, Nautilus will mount it as
your regular user without any trouble. You should be able to find a list
of filesystems that can be mounted by pressing shift+tab from the list
of files. If you need it at boot time, it should have already been
detected and a mount point chosen during the install process, unless you
recently created this new partition after installation, in which case,
you probably know something about system administration already, and
/etc/fstab shouldn't be a problem for you at all, as long as you have a
rescue image available.

I disagree with the assertion that LInux is not designed for those who
don't want to learn about system administration. There are now graphical
tools for just about everything, and many distros are now designed to
just work without direct user interaction with the internals. I actually
have a client using openSUSE who initially came to me saying his
computer was running Windows really slowly. This was because the version
of Windows on the system required at least twice as much ram and
processing power as what shipped in the machine. So I replaced the
Windows that was barely capable of running, and took 5 minutes to boot,
with openSUSE, which boots up in just over a minute on the same machine
and migrated his files. He rarely even calls with a support issue, and I
can safely say he has no knowledge of textual system administration.
Sure, if I had it to do over, I would have him running Manjaro or
possibly Fedora, but I set this machine up over a year ago, before
Fedora 19 was released and before I had ever heard of Manjaro. Still, I
like openSUSE for the non-admin types for the most part as well, mainly
because of the graphical administration tools available in Yast. I will
say at this point that it's best not to run Arch or Debian unless you
want to do serious administration, especially during the installation
process, but most other distros are suitable for people who just want to
sit down in front of their computers to do stuff these days, and the
evolutionary process is continuing in that direction, and has shown no
sign of moving back to the almost entirely sysadmin-based ecosystem that
I initially came to know when I started working with Linux over 10 years
ago, unless, of course, the end user wants to be able to interact
directly with the internals, in which case, he or she still has access
to everything from the configuration files all the way down to the
source code. This versatility is the freedom of Linux, and what most
sets it apart from other operating systems.
~Kyle
http://kyle.tk/
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