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Recently, I've had installed three linux distributions: Debian, ElementaryOS, Fedora. Debian is good for daily computing, I really recommend it from starters to masters. Select Desktop Environment of your choice and get more work done. The live CD doesn't contains gparted or other recovery tools though. ElementaryOS is eye-candy, with simple app launcher and cool dock it enhances the user experience to just get more work done rather than configuring the user interface and get time wasted. Fedora looks like professional and formal, it's live CD contains gparted and some other tools which is good for recovery. It's installer is modern and worked well. Actually, that three linux distributions is just a distribution. Linux-based OS consist of: Kernel: Linux itself Build Tools Display Server: X, Wayland Display Manager(optional): LightDM, SDDM, Slim, etc. Desktop Environment(optional): KDE, GNOME, etc.  Window Manager: i3wm, dwm, bspwm, etc. Launcher: dmenu, Rofi, Albert, et

  Automounting internal drive can be useful to help it's users accessing drive without to click mount first. Mount is a process where the operating system trying to connect(register) the driver address of a drive to drvie entries, so later it can read, or displayed on explorer like Finder or nnn.   But there are several reason user wants macOS not to help them mount other internal drive at boot or startup, e.g. the drive is a windows drive with NTFS file-system.  MacOS have the ability to read NTFS file system, but the ability to write to it is questionable, because there are several cases where the user occured corrupted drive whent trying to use macOS's write to NTFS method.  Other method to write to NTFS is using tools like ntfs-3d and macFUSE, but that can also come with risk. So, let's ditch NTFS drive all the way from macOS. Back to the Title, How to do it? How do I prevent macOS from automounting a drive? Applications located at /Applications, you can access it using