Regarding not auto-mounting, the main reason there most likely security related.

I would be inclined to agree with that if it didn't auto mount my external drives, if you aren't mounting media in the name of security removable drives is the thing you generally block.

If you're talking about the filesystems on the disks installed in your PC case, they'll auto-mount if they're a Linux filesystem.

It doesn't on Bazzite for sure, these are new disks that were formatted at install with BTRFS. They aren't old drives ported from another system. Even with a native file system it still refused to mount unless I did so manually.

As for the command line, I fully intend to learn CLI in linux and thanks to all the fucking around I had to do I'm already on the way. But to put in in context I would never try to start off a novice windows user with powershell or command line as there are very few things you can't do with some part of the GUI.

I can navigate both with ease because I grew up doing it, but someone new is not going to know how to use it or feel comfortable with it so I will provide any instructions needed through the GUI unless absolutely necessary. once they have become comfortable then I walk the through the more advanced stuff if they care to learn it and if they don't then I don't pressure them.

Regardless I have it working now but the idea that I had to jump through all those hoops just to have basic functionality leaves a very bad taste in my mouth.