After installing Bazzite this morning, everything is working great except that my hard drives (2x 4 TB) are not showing up.
I previously used them on Windows for my media and plex server (which I still have dual booted while I get my bearings on Linux), but they’re not showing in Linux.
Any ideas?
https://docs.bazzite.gg/Advanced/Auto-Mounting_Secondary_Drives/
Oh, Bazzite really ships without NTFS driver/“doesn’t support it”?
Good to keep in mind if I ever have to troubleshoot it (and the usual workaround is to symbolic link the drivers to somewhere on bitchtree or extra4).
Bazzite has ntfs3/ntfs-3g available for mounting (this was merged with the main Linux kernel in 5.15 back in 2021), but it’s not supported to format disks as NTFS in the gui, if I recall.
You’re correct with the fact that Steam/Proton uses the colon character in file paths, which are an illegal character on ntfs, so if you wanted to share a Steam library specifically you need to use the symlink workaround. But this is specific to Steam/Proton and not a generality for e.g., Plex/JellyFin/OMV or general storage.
Yes, that all seems correct.
I just don’t know anything about Bazzite, but a friend of mine will prob join Linux soon & I think he is eyeing this distro, so I read a bit questions like this one.
Bazzite is pretty great, but being an immutable OS has pros and cons, especially if you run into weird edge cases (unsupported hardware, weird sound issues, general weirdness). Because you can’t modify the base OS, you won’t have access to use “normal” methods to try and solve the problem whatsoever, as opposed to running a non-atomic Arch/Fedora/Debian-based distro where you have access to a full package manager and init/systemd. But if they’re on somewhat mature hardware, it’s basically an appliance that is significantly harder to fuck up.
If disk space isn’t a huge issue, my recommendation among friends is to use Steam in Windows to create Archives to back up anything you don’t want to spend a lot of time redownloading. Then, once in Linux, drop in a new SSD and/or make a new ext4 partition exclusively for Steam games, add it to Flatseal, then use Steam on Linux to restore from the archive file. After that, Steam will download the proton distributable and some Linux middleware, and you’re mostly good to go.
Takes a while to copy files to and from the archives, especially if one of those scratch disks is a SATA SSD, but always much faster than doing it over the network.
Depends on the network, fibre here is cheap - still slower, but also less work.
I agree with everything you said tho, it’s mostly just that I don’t use it (and only know my own use cases).