First time ever on a Linux OS, transitioning away from dreaded Windows 10, and so far I’m loving it! =D
I’ve managed so far to accomplish quite a lot more than I thought I’d be able to, without help from anyone who actually knows what they’re doing… I’ve downloaded and installed MATE, encrypted my disks, started setting up the environment to be as I like it to, and I’m at the moment having a few questions:
what kind of partition format should I assign to my storage, 3.5" HD? I’m not even sure I permanently mounted it correctly… at the moment, the disk is formatted as a Linux (0x83) type. Mount settings are as per default user session checked. I’m not sure this is actually how a storage unit should be configured in my computer. When I open “folder explorer”, I see the “eject” button next to the unit. I’m guessing it shouldn’t appear…
everytime I tried opening the terminal, and executing any command (ex. sudo fdisk -1), it would prompt my user login password, but when I type the keyboard, nothing will appear inside the window. I have since changed my user profile so that it would be declared as system administrator, but I’m not convinced if that’s all there is to it.
I have a 240 Hz monitor, and a GTX 1080 Ti. I have switched the video driver settings to “market package driver from NVIDIA”, but when I open the NVIDIA X Server Settings, I don’t see any video settings being loaded and configured. It seems like I’d need to add them manually, one by one. What should I do in order to enable v-sync functionality between my graphics card and monitor?
Thank you so much! I’m very excited with this new OS!
on #2: you enter your login password to become the "superuser"or “root”. In a terminal, the password never appears (so no one can read over your shoulder). The small dots that appear in some password entry screens are not ASCII characters, so can not be displayed or typed in a “terminal emulator” window. So that is working right.
BTW, other Unix/Linux systems may have a separate “root” password, or even a root account that you can log in to directly. That is not the Ubuntu way, but is traditional Unix.
Changing your user profile to system administrator adds your username to a usergroup which is allowed to use the “sudo” command. Normal users are not allowed the use of the command. However, if you were the installing user, that user is always added to the group, because someone always has to be admin capable, since there is no root user account.
Re #1, you can’t reassign a partition format type without reformatting the disk as far as I know. But you shouldn’t see an eject button–unless–is this a USB disk?
Re #3, many bleeding-edge drivers are not available in Linux, or are available only in closed-source form. Hopefully someone else will have input on your specific situation.
I managed to find out the solution to questions 2 and 3, but question 1 still persists. I don’t mind reformatting the driver, since I had already done it recently. I have nothing valuable inside it, and can reformat anytime. But something clearly is wrong… the eject button is there, and also I can’t copy/paste files inside it. Ideally, I would like to move all my user folders (desktop, images, documents, music, video, download, etc) in this disk, so that it contains all the files I need. The SSD should contain only the OS and applications. But I somehow can’t copy files inside of it. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you! =)
I found the solution =) basically, yes, I had to format the disk in a ext4 format, then I mounted it on a /hdd mounting point I had created previously. This was only “half” of the problem, because now I had to configure the disk as my default path for documents and files. I wasn’t sure if all there was to it was changing the /home settings not to refer to /home, but to refer to /hdd, because I was doubtful if it might have changed my application installation directories away from the ssd and into the hdd as well. But after a bit of research, I found a page here that explained how to configure the system options in order to manually change the file paths from the previously allocated /home paths into the /hdd/username/ paths. So now my applications install and run in the default /home, but my downloads, documents, videos, images and music are all stored in my /hdd =)
