• ExLisperA
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    Why this can’t just be default

    Because not all distributions use gnome. Some distributions try to install as many graphical tools as they can and other distributions try to minimize the size of the install and let users decide what tools they want installed. Talking about defaults applications in Linux doesn’t make much sense. Each distro is free to choose the apps they want to include or not.

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      3 days ago

      Gnome has nothing to do with my question other than it’s just the tool I had to use to add basic and expected functionality.

      Mounting a disk on boot is not a new or alien concept it should be default, there is no excuse not to for the average user.

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        Some distros use KDE which is Qt which means that to install a gnome app (which uses gtk) you need to also install shitload of other dependencies. Fresh installs usually don’t mix KDE and Gnome apps. There a different default for them. So saying that a Gnome app should be default for Linux doesn’t make much sense.

        I mainly use Gnome apps and this is what I’m getting on my system:

        apt-get install konsole
        Reading package lists... Done
        Building dependency tree... Done
        Reading state information... Done
        The following additional packages will be installed:
          kactivitymanagerd kded6 keditbookmarks kio6 konsole-kpart kpackagetool6 kwallet6 libhfstospell11 libkf6archive-data libkf6archive6 libkf6attica6 libkf6auth-data libkf6authcore6 libkf6bookmarks-data libkf6bookmarks6
          libkf6bookmarkswidgets6 libkf6breezeicons6 libkf6codecs-data libkf6codecs6 libkf6colorscheme-data libkf6colorscheme6 libkf6completion-data libkf6completion6 libkf6configgui6 libkf6configqml6 libkf6configwidgets-data
          libkf6configwidgets6 libkf6coreaddons-data libkf6coreaddons6 libkf6crash6 libkf6dbusaddons-bin libkf6dbusaddons-data libkf6dbusaddons6 libkf6doctools6 libkf6globalaccel-data libkf6globalaccel6 libkf6guiaddons-bin libkf6guiaddons-data
          libkf6guiaddons6 libkf6i18n-data libkf6i18n6 libkf6i18nqml6 libkf6iconthemes-bin libkf6iconthemes-data libkf6iconthemes6 libkf6iconwidgets6 libkf6itemmodels6 libkf6itemviews-data libkf6itemviews6 libkf6jobwidgets-data libkf6jobwidgets6
          libkf6kcmutils-bin libkf6kcmutils-data libkf6kcmutils6 libkf6kcmutilscore6 libkf6kcmutilsquick6 libkf6kiocore6 libkf6kiogui6 libkf6kiowidgets6 libkf6newstuff-data libkf6newstuffcore6 libkf6newstuffwidgets6 libkf6notifyconfig-data
          libkf6notifyconfig6 libkf6package-data libkf6package6 libkf6parts-data libkf6parts6 libkf6pty-data libkf6pty6 libkf6runner6 libkf6service-bin libkf6service-data libkf6service6 libkf6solid-data libkf6solid6 libkf6sonnet-data
          libkf6sonnetcore6 libkf6sonnetui6 libkf6syndication6 libkf6textwidgets-data libkf6textwidgets6 libkf6wallet-data libkf6wallet6 libkf6walletbackend6 libkf6widgetsaddons-data libkf6widgetsaddons6 libkf6xmlgui-data libkf6xmlgui6
          libkirigami-data libkirigami6 libkirigamidelegates6 libkirigamidialogs6 libkirigamilayouts6 libkirigamiplatform6 libkirigamiprimitives6 libkirigamiprivate6 libplasmaactivities6 libpolkit-qt6-1-1 libqca-qt6-2 libqca-qt6-plugins
          libqt6core5compat6 libqt6quickcontrols2-6 libqt6quickshapes6 libqt6quicktemplates2-6 libvoikko1 media-player-info plasma-activities-bin qml6-module-org-kde-config qml6-module-org-kde-kcmutils qml6-module-org-kde-kirigami
          qml6-module-org-kde-newstuff qml6-module-qtcore qml6-module-qtqml qml6-module-qtqml-models qml6-module-qtqml-workerscript qml6-module-qtquick qml6-module-qtquick-controls qml6-module-qtquick-layouts qml6-module-qtquick-shapes
          qml6-module-qtquick-templates qml6-module-qtquick-window sonnet6-plugins systemsettings
        

        On KDE system you will see the same for any gnome tool.

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          Can people not read?, I never said gnome should be default in fact I stated clearly that it was just the tool I used. I said drives should mount on boot by default because it’s basic functionality.

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            Oh, I thought you meant that gnome disks should be installed by default.

            I said drives should mount on boot by default because it’s basic functionality.

            Usually it’s something you set up during installation. Linux philosophy is “don’t do anything the user doesn’t want to do”. If someone wants to mount a drive he/she will set it up. But again, this will depend on the distro. There’s no default for every possible Linux setup.