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  • Ubuntu snap store is full of trouble, mint has a good reputation for beginners.

    I used debian a long time as my main gaming machine but it wasn’t handling the transition to nvidia with wayland very well from what I could tell. I ended up switching to nobara (fedora based) because of its gaming set-up and that was awesome until fedora dropped X11. Wayland is still a big drama with nvidia so I have now switched to arch.

    My arch installation is great, I’m loving it and since I last installed it on my other machine about 6 years ago the archinstall script has gone a long way and it’s pretty easy to install now.

    Anyway, whichever one you choose be sure to install X11 instead of wayland for now until nvidia comes to the wayland party.






  • I’ll give you a quick rundown of the fstab file FYI but you only have root and the boot partition so I don’t think it’s viable just yet to edit.

    Above is the example table of your drive information.

    We can see that the <file system> on the first row of the first column is called /dev/sda1 this can also be represented by your device id or UUID which in your case the first row and the first column is UUID=686f915f-beb7-4533-a258-7b22b742aa02

    The second column on the first row in the example is <dir> or directory and the example is / which is a programatic representaion of “root” (all of the system files). In your fstab file it’s identical.

    The third column is <type> which is the type of drive format. The example is ext4 which is also identical to your system.

    The fourth is <options> which are defaults in the example and in your system is “errors=remount-ro”

    The fifth is <dump> and the option selected in the example is 1 where your system is “0”

    The sixth is <pass> where both yours and the example is 1

    I think the fstab configuration is fine and a quick search suggests that if there was an error on the drive with your root then the system will boot to read only access.

    https://askubuntu.com/questions/707118/what-do-the-fstab-mount-options-errors-remount-ro-mean

    You can install gparted and run drive error checking on both drives anyhow which is always good routine preventative maintenance.