[GTALUG] RaspberryPi won't automount USB memory stick

[Stewart C. Russell]

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