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Some answers address some of your questions, I would like to address something else you said:
Programs can certainly be installed wherever you want them to, bit package managers have their own folder structure to follow. Installing a program is not a magical thing, it just means having the binary somewhere on your computer, and that binary having the proper libraries accessible to it. If you downloaded a binary it is TECHNICALLY installed on your computer.
The other important part here is you being able to access that program, for this there is an environment variable balled
PATHwhich tells Linux where to look for binaries and in what order. So if yourPATHis/home/sarmsle/.bin:/media/NTFS/binaries:/bin:/usr/binwhenever you try to run for examplefirefoxit will try to run/home/sarmale/.bin/firefoxif that doesn't exist, it goes to the next, and the next until it finds it or runs out of options.Also in Linux you can mount partitions anywhere, and you can create links from one place to another. So nothing prevents you from mounting your
NTFSdrive in/NTFSor even/home/sarmale/Shared.So how could I install programs on the other drive? When they get installed they are scattered between /bin /lib /usr/bin and others, how could I move them in /media/SATA (where my drive is mounted)
The only thing I can do is move appimages until now
Yes, because you're installing them using the package manager (which is the recommended way). You can't (and shouldn't) move things installed by the package manager. You can manually install programs wherever. However, I think I'm missing a crucial bit of information, why do you need to do that? 256GB should be much more than enough for anything.