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Here's the 10th topic in the Helping new users series

Thanks
wizard

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Thanks
wizard

Remember, in Puppy, you are the Root user, so generally speaking all your
personal files should be kept in the /root directory or its sub directories.

is confusing and conflicting with:

Save files are a fixed size and can fill up, but You CAN resize them
(Menu>Utility>Resize personal storage file). You can also help keep your save
file smaller by moving your documents, downloads, etc. to a directory in
/mnt/home.

Would be good practice to avoid filling personal save from the first time you use Puppy.
Your Music, Photos, Videos, Documents, Downloads, what ever should not be stored in the personal storage.

The /root directory is also referred to as the “home” directory. To make things a
little confusing “home” can also refer to the /mnt/home directory which is the top
level directory of the Puppy boot partition.

/mnt/home is not the top level directory. It's just a symlink to the mounted partition where Puppy was installed to.
The top level directory is / (which confusingly is called root)
To complete confusion, there is also /home, which is comparable with Windows Users directory...

So many homes and roots - please be more precise

@HerrBert

Have edited to add some clarity, see the first post.

/mnt/home is not the top level directory. It's just a symlink to the mounted partition where Puppy was installed to.
The top level directory is / (which confusingly is called root)
To complete confusion, there is also /home, which is comparable with Windows Users directory...

Probably too much information for a new user, we're only trying to give them just enough info to get up and running.

The rest can come later.

Thanks
wizard

The point is to be specific when it comes to Filesystem Hierarchy Standard on Linux as early as possible.
We often see posts mentioning /root or root.
I recall i often mixed up /root with the root file system (/) in my early days using Puppy Linux.
...just a thought

It would really help new users to include partition mounting alt-file managers with dependencies for drives in the Quickpet or at least PPM.

As it stands Thunar and PCManFM are easy to install, but they won't work on unmounted partitions.

Where do they work? X-series, LxPup (you get the idea).

Desktop partitions are better implemented in JWM than the alt-DEs, but file managers are more fluidly intuitive for partition access.

Places with very low overhead is another positive direction.

I have evolved to dual-thinking where I know how to live with or without them, but I would not do this to a new user if I had the power to control it.