I wrote this infodump, maybe someone here might find it useful:
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Haha yes, some interesting bits and bobs in thereā¦ I like the section about terminal - and the one thing that stands out for me in plasma above so many other desktops is the Dolphin/Konsole synergy; whereas when I first went from (Ubuntu-Linux Mint) to Manjaro KDE I was really stuck, and really angry that I couldnāt just get a ROOT file manager up to do āsimple jobsā.
Now I know it was never actually necessary or easier; it was just āthe wayā that Iād used so often that I was in a rut.
Mostly itās good to be around and communicating with other users - soooo many tips and tricks come up just chattingā¦
For anyone coming from Mac, or Windows, so many āthis is how it should beā ideas also should be revealed for what they areā¦
Note about LTS distros
Good. Itās worth explaining that again and again; itās even better when done publicly, so we can have a place to link to in direct talks with newbies. āStableā is probably the single most misleading Linux naming convention that exists.
So where is the C and D drive
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/mnt[ā¦]
If it only was that simpleā¦ Even back in the day when I started my Linux journey many distributions also had /media and now you also have some per-user directories deep in the directory structure, somewhere in /run if I remember correctly. (I personally disabled that dubious feature in the configuration of udev, so fortunately I donāt need to bother with it.) This is an example of how some Linux things only become more complicated as the time goes by, not simpler.
I think an even simpler answer is āIn Dolphinās sidebar, near the bottom.ā Then you donāt have to worry about the implementation details of /mnt vs /media.
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True that, but I wanted this part to be a bit more distro/tool agnostic.
For example when people are looking for their other drive in Steam.
solid advice for noobs.
i would throw Install Timeshift as one of the first things to do after getting you brand new install to boot.