Hello.
This is the first post I am making on this forum.
I am taking advantage of the ample time before October 2025’s judgment day to understand Linux.
I am not only learning about it, but also looking for the best Distro for me
(a normal person who just wants its computer to work; I am not a developer, I am not a server admin, I am not a person with special interests, I am purely a person with a passion for tech, the middle man between those who barely understand what a folder is and those who code software and build hardware)
and for what I saw up to now Fedora KDE seems the best for what I want to do, since Distros like Arch are for people with… different needs than mine, and Debian stuff has things which I don’t like, so Fedora KDE it is.
NOW, for my question:
I KNOW that this is not a begging page for devs to bend to my will, I don’t expect nor want that.
I need help with my storage devices.
USBs work normally, both sticks and external HDDs and SSDs. My problem is with one of the computers I am testing Linux on.
There is a 240gb SSD as boot drive and 1tb HDD as storage.
On Windows I just have to install the hardware and, if needed, format it before mounting it in the computer so that every user is able to use it in its fullest.
When I got Fedora KDE instead it didn’t work like that.
TO MAKE THINGS SIMPLER I am gonna call my main, powerful computer PC1 and the other one PC2 (any other computer will be next in number).
PC1 already has many other storages in it. When I use Fedora KDE (installed on a 2tb SSD) and I am on W10 Disk Manager can see the disk, even if it’s not formatted, while when I am in with Fedora KDE its Disk Manager can not see W10’s boot disk (500gb NVME).
On PC1 when I am on Fedora KDE the Disk Manager can see all the other disks, but to access them (if I remember properly they have to be mounted each time, I didn’t dare test anything radical on the computer I still need to have a completely functional W10 on) I need to mount them and insert my password each time at each boot.
PC2 was like that too, but since it’s the living room computer it has my Admin account and a User account for the other people.
I will be honest, I tested out stuff trying to mount it without knowing things (because I didn’t find guides which explain the problem in a minute and take another one single minute to fix it) and now, yes, the HDD is permanently mounted in PC2, but I can’t edit the files on it and the mounting place is more or less random.
I am fine with getting explained what to do, what I did wrong, but PLEASE other than the in-dept explanation (possibly a video or a audio track, I have problems with reading things) to understand the problem more in details, I just want the 1-2 minutes explanation on how to fix it and make it work.
I do not care to preserve any data really, I can even re-install Fedora KDE, everything on that PC is replaceable, I just want to know the possible procedures to, honestly, “make the mounted disks work as fine and simply as if I was mounting them on Windows”.