Comment 5 for bug 175503

I think this should be a much higher priority as well. It seems small but it makes Ubuntu seem broken to the new user, and if things like this aren't fixed, Ubuntu will not become usable for the regular person.

Bugs like this are extremely frustrating when migrating from Windows. The first thing I did after installing Ubuntu onto my new laptop was plug in my 500 Gb NTFS USB drive to migrate my files, only to spend several frustrating hours trying to understand what "mounting" was, how to "force" it (scary: "forced mounting" sounds like rape), trying to edit fstab (without success), trying to find out what devices I had and what they were called, and installing misleading packages like "automount". Eventually I gave up and ejected it from Windows--a bitter lesson. Wasn't it fortunate I didn't migrate completely to Linux?

This bug nearly caused me to revert to Windows. Now I use ntfsfix /dev/sdb1 (from the package ntfsprogs), even though it's deprecated, because I haven't figured out how to edit fstab effectively yet. And I'm not stupid--I was a cognitive science and logic major in college, I'm a web developer, and I've had two semesters of Java.