Hi Curt, you only mention auto-mounting and auto-detecting, but you don't mention the defaults. If at least two graphic drivers are available, which one should automatically be installed and for what reason this one and not the other?
With what options should drives get mounted? I usually can't use the common Linux defaults, instead I usually add "noatime". On Sat, 7 May 2016 01:41:34 -0230, Curt Dawe wrote: >Why no auto mount? Why auto mount all drives by default? What is is good for? My customized installs even don't auto-mount pluggable devices and no GUI provides to mount the devices, here it requires to use command line even for CD and DVD. How should auto-mount behave? Auto-mount read/write? Auto-mount read only? What if a user for good reasons doesn't want that something gets mounted? You mentioned several other operating systems. I doubt that Windows is able to auto-mount (Linux could auto-mount, assumed you set up Linux to do so) or allows you to manually mount more file systems, than Linux is able to do. Would Windows auto-mount the following FreeBSD file system or even allow to mount it manually? $ lsmod | grep ufs $ sudo mkdir /mnt/freebsd $ sudo mount -t ufs -o ufstype=ufs2,ro /dev/sda1 /mnt/freebsd $ cat /mnt/freebsd/etc/fstab # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass /dev/ad4s1b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/ad4s1a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad4s1e /tmp ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad4s1f /usr ufs rw 2 2 /dev/ad4s1d /var ufs rw 2 2 /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 /dev/ada0s8 /mnt/dump ext2fs rw 0 0 /dev/ada0s9 /mnt/archlinux ext2fs rw 0 0 $ lsmod | grep ufs ufs 69632 1 If not, why not and should Linux chose the same selection of auto-mounting partitions as Windows does or as another operating system does? >And why no auto detect of graphics hardware to the point that Linux >goes ... "OK .. buddy has an nVidia blah blah card ... sooo, let's put >that driver as default. For my customized Linux installs I'm using a dedicated xorg.conf, however, if I boot a Linux from a live media my graphics automatically can be used. Do you recommend that Linux by default should install the proprietary drivers for NVIDIA and ATI cards? Note, you mentioned Linux distros, but actually Linux is the kernel and there are several special kernels, aka patched Linux available, and vendors not necessarily provide their proprietary drivers for all kernel versions, let alone for all patched kernels, workable in combination with all versions of X, let alone that usage of proprietary drivers e.g. for real-time tasks might be unwanted. You seem to expect that many, if not most Linux users are using Linux as a replacement for another OS and that they want, that Linux behaves in the same way. Consider that a lot of Linux users are using Linux not as a replacement for another OS and they really need a different default behaviour, even if they don't customize their Linux installs. Most likely there are distros providing what you require. Regards, Ralf -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
