Re: install experience

[Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>]

From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: Re: install experience
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2017 15:17:16 +0100

>>  - When I tried to login as non-root user for the first time, my 
>> home
>>    directory was not there, and I was sent back to the login 
>> screen. I
>>    logged in as root and created/chown'ed the home directory 
>> myself.
>>    Unfortunately, I have no further information here, either.
>
> Could it be that /home is a separate partition?  There’s a bug 
> waiting
> to be fixed in this area: <https://bugs.gnu.org/21108>.

Yes, that looks like the same issued. Indeed, I noticed today that a 
/home/thomas directory got created on my root partition (I suppose it 
then somehow hidden when my home partition is mounted at /home).

>> Now, the system works fine, though I'll try to tweak it for better
>> touchpad support, graphics acceleration (I'm gnome3 is currently
>> unusable) and sharper fonts.  Those things worked better when it 
>> was
>> running Ubuntu, though I suspect some of that was due to non-free
>> driver blobs etc.
>
> If you find ways to tweak it, let us know how we can improve the 
> default
> settings.

Coming from Ubuntu, I don't have any experience fiddling with these 
things, but I'll do my best ;-)

Thomas