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PC Gamer: "I'm brave enough to say it: Linux is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop" (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world
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[–] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Just to add, since I recently started to switch. Steam will find the game if I mount the "old" NTFS drive and point my steam library to it. It will be able to download missing files and appears to launch the game. The game doesn't start though. After adding a EXT4 partition, I was able to add a library there and use the "move installation folder" in game settings. Then it works.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    thanks for the tip.

    so I can't use the files if my 2TB HDD is NTFS as is. the main drive currently with windows and a few games that I'll move to the HDD, I'll be converting to a distro I haven't yet decide.

    so I'm guessing after I get Steam running on the linux drive, install any game then move the games installed from the old windows install…?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not sure I follow the question. I'll try to list the steps.

    1. Install distro
    2. Install steam
    3. Mount NTFS drive
    4. Add steam library in NTFS drive (point to existing Window library)
    5. Let steam recognize the game and install potentially missing files
    6. Create EXT4 partition disk (preferably done already when installing distro)
    7. If EXT4 game partition is not main drive, mount it and create steam library on it
    8. Move game files.

    Hopefully that makes sense. Somewhere along the way steam will probably install Proton as well. It might work straight from NTFS too, maybe? But I didn't get it to on Linux Mint

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It works straight from NTFS if you install the ntfs driver, but you're better off moving them to a BTRFS or EXT4 formatted drive so as to not fuck around with NTFS too much since NTFS can cause issues.

    Highly recommend CachyOS for gaming too, has one click GUI installer for all gaming components out of the box.

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