I saw this post on reddit and im banned there so I figured I’d post here for anyone who sees this and considers it.

I’ve directly tried this before, it was close to a year ago though or maybe longer so maybe things changed. But I’ve noticed when you try to launch a game that was previously running through wine on windows instead, it can completely stop the game from launching with wine in the future unless you reinstall the game (or maybe change install drive in steam?) or do some other fix im unaware of.

That’s not a problem for everyone, if you just wanna use that specific game only on windows then you’re fine, but i thought this should still be kept in mind in case people decide to do this to compare performance etc.

and also in order to run games off an ntfs drive you just need to set drive permissions in your fstab. Im on the shitter rn so maybe once im back at my pc ill grab the options and edit them into this. Sometimes the drive will stop giving proper access to it and all you need to do is run fsck on the windows drive then it should work on linux properly again its just some dumb windows shit.

EDIT: uid=1000,gid=1000,dmask=022,fmask=133 these are the options to add to your fstab, replace uid and gid with your user id and group id of your user account. after that games should work fine on ntfs.

i used to have an entire drive that was ntfs just to store stuff between windows and linux now its just bcache formatted to xfs though cuz i never touch windows really.

  • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
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    17 hours ago

    Yeah same here. I built a new PC for Linux and kept my old Windows machine on hot standby and even hooked it up to a KVM because I was afraid Linux would be an incompatible debacle and I’d have to be switching back all the time.

    … instead, I think I’ve used my Windows machine like… once. And it’s been over six months. And when I did use it I was mostly just curious about something random, and it was something so inconsequential I don’t even remember what it was.

    Linux admittedly doesn’t gel for everyone immediately, so maybe you will want to go back. But honestly, I haven’t looked back, and I don’t even really think about it anymore.