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[ Enhancement ] [ Bug ] Menu links and Launcher links to laptops NTFS drives don't work #18

Closed Tsoccerguy3 closed 6 years ago

Tsoccerguy3 commented 6 years ago

Product http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=710_577_1199&item_id=114634

My setup works great with exception to the following . I Wiped SSD and 1 TB Hard Drive , clean installations on UEFI/GPT-based hard drive partitions SSD partition 64 gig Win10 NTFS , 64 gigs Mint 18.3 with 2gig swap / 20 gig root EXT4 / 42 gig home EXT4 1 TB Hard drive GPT NTFS used as Data Drive Environment : Dual boot Mint 18.3 Cinnamon and Win 10 x64

Manually launching programs on extra internal or external drives work fine ! Adding programs to the Mint Menu , that are on the 1 TB GPT NTFS Data drive , do not launch . The links that are created by the Mint Menu or the desktop launcher , do not take into consideration a dual boot situation where a larger data drive on a laptop will be shared by windows 10 and Mint . Also creating a desktop launcher to the 1 TB data drive or a manual link on the desktop do not work .

The links created by Mint should take into consideration the shared security on a shared data drive , be it internal or a USB / eSATA external drive .

I believe That the Menu and Launcher should mount and create working links without bias , I had a most difficult time to discover how to solve this . New users on a dual boot , Mint / Win10 system , should not have such a hard time , after all they are making an attempt to make the switch over to mint. please fix this .

I was linked to this page for a solution https://askubuntu.com/questions/245154/how-to-get-permissions-to-execute-programs-from-ntfs-hard-drive

leigh123linux commented 6 years ago

Setting fstab mount options isn't our job, it something the user needs to do for themselves.

Tsoccerguy3 commented 6 years ago

Would it not make for a better experience for a new Mint user to set this option within the code . Instead of people assuming the menu is broken , or Mint does not work , then dropping the adoption of Mint OS . Even people asking the same question over and over . I see only positives and no down side to make this default .