On 2022-01-17 08:51, Giles Orr wrote:
Install a desktop environment (as opposed to a "window manager") if you don't have one
I may be misremembering, but installing one of the desktop packages doesn't necessarily bring in the automount facility. Only installing the Desktop image gives you that. There are a bunch of older Raspberry Pi tutorials (and by older, I mean from 2019 or before) that recommend starting with Lite and then installing the desktop on top. You don't end up with the same functionality. All bets are off with the new(ish) Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye. So much has changed (particularly if you're a camera user) that even good advice from a few months ago is strikingly wrong. A couple of details: * the desktop runs a completely different system depending on what board you're on. Raspberry Pi 4Bs and 400s with 4 or more GB RAM get Mutter and other Gnome-like things. Those with 2 GB or less get the familiar(ish) LXQt things. * The Raspberry Pi OS maintainers have created a legacy/LTS release to help buffer some of these changes. They're still a very small team and community needs are seldom taken into account. Stewart