Flatfire comments on Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025

Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025 (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 11 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.

[–] Flatfire@lemmy.ca 27 points 11 months ago (4 children)

It's best practice to keep it separate, and that mostly just has to do with how the different file systems are handled.

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[+] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

There is an installable btrfs driver for Windows. No idea how trustworthy it is, though.

And yeah, accessing Steam games on an NTFS partition from Linux is a recipe for permission issues. Just don't.

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[–] flux@lemmy.world 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

Yah. I split the drive so we will see how it goes. But memory is cheap. I'm not messing around with game saves that could possibly take away hours of my progress.