1. I have NVIDIA Optimus and I haven’t been able to get any method of installing NVIDIA drivers to work. I don’t necessarily care about the full switching ability of the Optimus, although sure it would be nice. I also have been unsuccessful turning off the Intel UHD graphics (as an option). My computer is an MSI Sword 15 A11UD, with NVIDIA Corporation GA107M [GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile] 3D graphics. I have installed using the Driver Manager in Mint, and also manually. I have checked and I am using the 550 driver, which I think is supposed to be the right one.

2. I am having trouble transitioning to Linux where I am not able to simply navigate to additional hard drives contained in my laptop or attached via usb. I have my torrents on an external drive, and it keeps getting renamed, easystore somehow became “owned” by root and inaccessible, and I had to switch to easystore1 which was created in the same folder. After I switched, easystore1 became owned by root, and I had to switch to easystore2, which had been created.

In addition to this, I can’t browse to the external hard drive through plex media server or radarr/sonarr, it just doesn’t show on the menu. I know it’s a permission issue, but I don’t understand how that works.

I was happy up to a point, but my Linux installation is becoming what I was afraid of, a test showing me how little I know, and a time-eater that causes my wife to wonder what happened to her husband.

Please, I want to be free, but I don’t want to just say bye to my hard drives and my GPU. Help me, community. You’re my only hope.