• RandomStranger@piefed.social
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    4 days ago

    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

    • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.social
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      4 days ago

      My question is a bit confusing yes, sorry 😅

      But yes thank you for getting it. This helps a lot clearing up my uncertainties on moving to Linux

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      4 days ago

      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.

      • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.social
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        4 days ago

        CachyOS is on my short list to try first. But I’m gping to try installing a light distro on a pendrive first like someone suggested to me to check if my gaming wheel would work with it.