There is no problem with permissions in Puppy. It gives you root
automatically. This is why all the frustration with passwords and mounting
and all the rest of the nonsense. I have never had to learn it using Puppy.
I am paying the price for that now. To my mind, security is user
responsibility. Puppy allows me to set my passwords the way I want-not the
other way around. With Puppy, I can boot from any of my USB drives or other
hard drives and do whatever I want with my files. I can pick whatever flavor
I want to work in today and get going.
I can see now this is going to be endless and extremely difficult, i.e., not
worth all the mess. Yes, I could take the easy way out and just copy my
files over to Trisquel or copy Trisquel over Puppy, I know what already, but
that's not learning much.
Free software is great, yes, but it still has a long, long, long way to go
before it will ever appeal to the average user. This is why Ubuntu distros,
the Mint distros, and all the rest of the more popular operating systems get
all the attention... because the free software community has yet to come up
with an operating system that is polished and works as easily as they do.
I will find another way around this. Thanks for your help.
