Gabadabs comments on Steam data reveals PC gamers shifting from Windows to Linux

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[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just putting the ISO directly into the ventoy folder on the USB should just work, it's odd that you had to mount it and drag the files. If you're trying to use games installed on one drive between windows and Linux, I do not recommend attempting that. Windows can't natively read Linux drive formats like ext4, and if you try to play games on an NTFS drive on Linux you WILL run into problems. Your cloud saves should just work normally though.

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[–] BenLeMan@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

if you try to play games on an NTFS drive on Linux you WILL run into problems

What kind of problems? I REALLY don't want to have hundreds of gigabytes in duplicate files on my system.

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[–] Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago

They just won't function properly. There are permissions problems and while some games might work, you will run into games that simply won't launch, or that have regular crashes, among other issues. I recommend installing the games you want to play on Linux there, and the ones you can't on windows.

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