Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.
Valve released the statistics from the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for November 2025, which shows once again that Linux use is trending nicely upwards.
This. The problem is Windows can’t read ext4 or Btrfs, and though Linux can handle NFTS, it isn’t great.
When I was first switching to Linux a few years ago, I did have a shared library using NTFS. It mostly just worked, but the occasional game would refuse to start, and I had no issues once I was no longer using NTFS.
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.