I would like to transfer my Windows Firefox profile to Bazzite, but I cannot seem to find the folder where Firefox profiles are stored. And I cannot open the folder through Firefox, as the button does nothing. It says it’s in: /home/User/.mozilla/firefox/ but the Firefox folder isn’t there, even when hidden files setting is on to view. I do not want to use Firefox sync as it has deleted my stuff the two times I have tried it in the past. Also, I have extensions installed in Firefox, and the folder for extensions is empty, as if it’s not being used. Why is it empty?
I was trying to setup some icons for games on my Desktop and noticed that Linux doesn’t treat all monitors as desktops, like Windows does. It seems to have 1 screen as a desktop, and the other as “share” folder, and functions differently. Is there a way to have both monitors as desktops, but not duplicated? Also, my secondary monitor (not selected as my primary in the display options) is set to be my desktop. I do not know how to fix this switch up.
Bazzite has been amazing to try, and was able to start gaming really fast, but the new environment is tough for me to navigate, and searching on the web hasn’t been helpful. Thank you in advance.
I was able to find where I could switch desktops in the panel configuration options.
I managed to import the profile into firefox by clicking on the profile config button in firefox, then making a new profile in a new folder in my user folder. Then I transferred the old profile into the new folder. It seemed to work, until I turned on my pc again today, and firefox gives me an error, saying it cannot find my profile. Also, I manually installed ublock origin on vivaldi browser (bc google won’t allow installing through their extension store). When launching vivaldi, I noticed ublock wasn’t active. I had to manually activate the extension again, and update the filters and settings again. I think the two problems are related, but I’m new to Linux and how it works. I think the system doesn’t allow these types of changes to be persistent for some reason, and I don’t really know why or how to fix it.
I also have several NTFS drives (HDD and SSD) that I used with windows. They do not auto mount for some reason even though I changed settings to auto mount all devices. I do not want to use them for running programs or games, but as file storage of media (music, movies, documents, etc.), and manually mounting them every time I log on to Bazzite is horrible user experience.
I would really appreciate help or a pointer in the right direction.
Don’t use NTFS with Linux!
It might work for a while, but you’ll eventually run into problems, and you could lose data. Always use a Linux-native filesystem like ext4 or btrfs.
What to do if you have multiple NTFS drives:
Pick one drive you can erase (or back it up to an external drive).
Format that drive to ext4 or btrfs.
Copy files from another NTFS drive onto the newly formatted drive.
Once the copy is done, reformat the NTFS drive to ext4/btrfs.
Repeat the process until all drives are converted.
as stated by @xarishark you should use btrfs or ext4, if you don’t have an extra drive to transfer files, you could use ntfs2btrfs. I used it so that my external drive with my games could be used both for steam and other files.