beginner questions...

[Naja Melan]

hi,

im just migrating from windows. I tried kubuntu before, but found that
unworkable. Now i got ubuntu studio, and am really happy with it. Im very
positively surprised by its userfriendlyness....

Im especially amazed with how much i have been able to sort out and set up
in only two days by looking things up on the net. However, there are some
things i don't know where to look up.

I have a rather special settup it seems, nevertheless it is almost working
smooth, and im sure with some tweaking it will be perfect... I have my
ubuntu installed on a portable usb hard disk ( != usb stick... ). This
allows me to take it with me everywhere I go, and to get it to a computer
with internet, as i don't have that at home. There are some minor
abnormalities though since the hardware always changes:

1.  and 2. solved by now by further searching

3. In ubuntu (studio) all disk drives are always mounted automatically. I
love this approach. Only since everywhere i go, there are ntfs drives, and
there are no ext3 drivers for win x64, i would like to get my disks to
always mount with ntfs-3g, and get the writable. It seems you would normally
do something like that with fstab, but that doesn't seem to make sense since
every computer has different harddisks and partitions.

I don't know which program arranges the automounting and hotplugging, so i
don't know how to configure it to use ntfs-3g??

4. The computers use different graphics cards, thus need different drivers.
I have Ati card at home Ndvia somewhere else etc... The problem is, that
when trying to install the ndvia driver, it insists on removing the ati one
etc...

Is there a way to just install all drivers and have it choose the right one?

5. Different computers have different screen sizes and resolutions. I don't
get this concept in linux. For example with gdesklets i seem to lose the
installed desklets from 1280 when i start a computer with 1024. I pick them
again, and when back on a comp with 1280, i have them twice...

How does linux deal with the resolution?

Thanx very much in advance for any help...
greets
naja
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