Linux Distros

[NeutralHatred]

Is there a particular distro that is user friendly in terms of accessing mounted drives? I primarily use a Linux distro at work on a flash drive for basic hardware troubleshooting (i.e. verifying wifi and bluetooth functionality outside the OS) and data backups. The latter is used the most and I have been using Ubuntu but, wanted to see if there was another one that may be easier to navigate and observe my backups. The backups themselves are basic drag and drop to a backup external.

 

This may be a dumb question but, I'm just trying to get ideas of new distros to try out and get more familiar with Linux in general. I currently put Mint on my flash drive and plan to try it out. Other opinions would be appreciated as I am not too familiar with Linux in general, and I'm a Windows user.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Most of this stuff isn't really affected by the distro. Either do it in the terminal, or use what the de has. I normally just access and manage the drives in the terminal as it gives me the most control, but most distros will let you have a easy to use gui to access hdds.

[NeutralHatred]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Most of this stuff isn't really affected by the distro. Either do it in the terminal, or use what the de has. I normally just access and manage the drives in the terminal as it gives me the most control, but most distros will let you have a easy to use gui to access hdds.

I figured as much. I don't copy the whole drive to another; I primarily grab the customer's user files. Perhaps I'll look into using the terminal. It may be faster, if I can get a basic template that I can just copy paste to grab user files and copy to the connected backup drive.

[Anon Ymous]

If you want a nostalgic feel of distro to experiment with it's no longer in support/distribution but was fun to try out since it was know at the time of it's release to be of use to hacker's I believe it's a Gentoo flavor derivative. 

[PureArtistry]

Most distro's either use or have gvfs in their repo's which is what is handling the auto mount of external drives in Ubuntu. You could install that plus Thunar (as an example) on any distro and get the same behaviour.

[wasab]

On 10/5/2019 at 1:26 PM, NeutralHatred said:

Is there a particular distro that is user friendly in terms of accessing mounted drives? I primarily use a Linux distro at work on a flash drive for basic hardware troubleshooting (i.e. verifying wifi and bluetooth functionality outside the OS) and data backups. The latter is used the most and I have been using Ubuntu but, wanted to see if there was another one that may be easier to navigate and observe my backups. The backups themselves are basic drag and drop to a backup external.

 

This may be a dumb question but, I'm just trying to get ideas of new distros to try out and get more familiar with Linux in general. I currently put Mint on my flash drive and plan to try it out. Other opinions would be appreciated as I am not too familiar with Linux in general, and I'm a Windows user.

you just need to search disks in your gnome menu. It does auto mount, disk cloning and backup, and format.

Dont tell me you were mounting your drives using terminal.....

Linux guides these days.... they seriously need to go over how to do things without having to sudo your way through a terminal every time.